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 September 3, 2026) - The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-five-hundred · five hundred · English
five hundred · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “five hundred” in English
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
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