clean as a hound's tooth
"clean-as-a-hound-s-tooth" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clean as a hound's tooth” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Very clean.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clean as a hound's tooth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clean as a hound's tooth” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for clean as a hound's tooth is 24 letters long, classified as an adjective. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clean as a hound's tooth, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is clean as a hound's tooth, spelled C-L-E-A-N- -A-S- -A- -H-O-U-N-D-'-S- -T-O-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1Very clean.
- 2Very innocent.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “clean as a hound's tooth”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-L-E-A-N- -A-S- -A- -H-O-U-N-D-'-S- -T-O-O-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.