foothills
/ˈfʊt.hɪlz/
"foothills" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foothills” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,542
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of foothill
Corpus desk
Index EN-foothills · foothills · English
foothills · rank #23,542 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,542
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH firewood
Nearest frequency peer: firewood (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “foothills”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- favoring
favoring
76,463 corpus weight
- firewood
firewood
76,460 corpus weight
- foothills
foothills
76,459 corpus weight
- foresight
foresight
76,458 corpus weight
- forsaken
forsaken
76,457 corpus weight
- fundamental…
fundamentalist
76,455 corpus weight
What this shows “foothills” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foothills |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfʊt.hɪlz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “foothills”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around foothills (IPA /ˈfʊt.hɪlz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,542 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of foothill".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for foothills, with forms such as "ffoothills", "foohtills", and "foothhills". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is foothills, spelled F-O-O-T-H-I-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of foothill
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoothills
- foohtills
- foothhills
- foothillss
- foothils
- foothilsl
- foothlils
- footihlls
- footthills
- fothills
- fotohills
- ofothills
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foothills - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "foothills", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).