haggis
/ˈhæɡɪs/
"haggis" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“haggis” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,681. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,681
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep offal with oatmeal and spices, etc., originally boiled in the stomach of a sheep but now often in an artificial casing, and usually served with ne...
Corpus desk
Index EN-haggis · haggis · English
haggis · rank #43,681 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,681
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hainan
Nearest frequency peer: Hainan (+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 “haggis”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gravestone
gravestone
56,325 corpus weight
- gridiron
gridiron
56,324 corpus weight
- haggis
haggis
56,320 corpus weight
- Hainan
Hainan
56,319 corpus weight
- Hamad
Hamad
56,318 corpus weight
- headdress
headdress
56,316 corpus weight
What this shows “haggis” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | haggis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhæɡɪs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “haggis”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around haggis (IPA /ˈhæɡɪs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,681 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep offal with oatmeal and spices, etc., originally boiled in the stomach of a sheep but now often in an artificial casing, and usually served with ne...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for haggis, with forms such as "ahggis", "haggiss", and "haggsi". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Higgs", "Harris", "haggle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle English hagis (“haggis”), from hag, haggen (“to chop, cut, hack; to cut into”) (from Old Norse hǫggva (“to hew”)), or from hakken (“to chop, hack; to dice, mince”) (from Old English hēawan (“to chop, hew; to dice, mince”)), both ultimately … The correct English form is haggis, spelled H-A-G-G-I-S.
Definition
- 1A traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep offal with oatmeal and spices, etc., originally boiled in the stomach of a sheep but now often in an artificial casing, and usually served with neeps and tatties (mashed swede and potatoes) and accompanied with whisky.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haggis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
HAGGESS, haggas, or haggis, ſort d'appret fait avec des herbes, du larde caupé menu, des épices, des œufs, & du fromage, le tout mis enſemble & bouilli dans une panſe de brebis.
I congratulate the Caledonians on the acquiſition of this new Saint, but wonder if the German crows were ſo civil to refrain from ſo ſavoury a Scotch haggiſs.
Etymology
From Late Middle English hagis (“haggis”), from hag, haggen (“to chop, cut, hack; to cut into”) (from Old Norse hǫggva (“to hew”)), or from hakken (“to chop, hack; to dice, mince”) (from Old English hēawan (“to chop, hew; to dice, mince”)), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to hew; to beat, strike; to forge”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahggis
- haggiss
- haggsi
- hagigs
- hagis
- hgagis
- hhaggis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of haggis - 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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