five hundred
/ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
"five-hundred" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“five hundred” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | five hundred |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “five hundred” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
five hundred is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anumeral, transcribed /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for five hundred, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is five hundred, spelled F-I-V-E- -H-U-N-D-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.
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 “five hundred”
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- The one correct English spelling is F-I-V-E- -H-U-N-D-R-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.