fox hunting
"fox-hunting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fox hunting” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sport of hunting foxes across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the landed gentry now controversially banned in Great Britain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fox-hunting · fox hunting · English
fox hunting · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | fox hunting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fox hunting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fox hunting is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The sport of hunting foxes across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the landed gentry now controversially banned in Great Britain.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fox hunting in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is fox hunting, spelled F-O-X- -H-U-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The sport of hunting foxes across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the landed gentry now controversially banned in Great Britain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fox hunting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At Plumtree the railway enters the pleasant, rolling Wolds, famous for fox-hunting.
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.