haddock
/ˈhædək/
"haddock" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“haddock” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #35,745 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #35,745
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haddock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhædək/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “haddock” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for haddock is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈhædək/. Corpus data places it at rank #35,745 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for haddock, with forms such as "ahddock", "haddcok", and "haddocck". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Hancock", "hammock", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (“to prepare”), cognate with Itali… The correct English form is haddock, spelled H-A-D-D-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.
Etymology
From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (“to prepare”), cognate with Italian addobbare (“to souse fish or meat”). The spelling is usually regarded as a diminutive in -ok (see -ock).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahddock,haddcok,haddocck,haddockk,haddokc,hadock,hadodck,hdadock,hhaddock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of haddock - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “haddock”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-A-D-D-O-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈhædək/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Hancock” - see the side-by-side comparison. haddock vs Hancock
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.