haft
/hæft/
"haft" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“haft” is uncommon English (frequency #73,249 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,249
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The handle of a tool or weapon.
Corpus desk
Index EN-haft · haft · English
haft · rank #73,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,249
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH hacky
Nearest frequency peer: hacky (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “haft”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gripper
gripper
26,761 corpus weight
- Gwendolen
Gwendolen
26,756 corpus weight
- hace
hace
26,754 corpus weight
- hacky
hacky
26,753 corpus weight
- haft
haft
26,752 corpus weight
- hedgerow
hedgerow
26,745 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “haft” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haft |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hæft/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “haft” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
haft is uncommon English at frequency #73,249 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /hæft/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The handle of a tool or weapon.".
haft doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English haft, from Old English hæft, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją. The correct English form is haft, spelled H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1The handle of a tool or weapon.
Etymology
From Middle English haft, from Old English hæft, from Proto-West Germanic *haftī, from Proto-Germanic *haftiją.
Synonyms
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.