hags
/hæɡz/
"hags" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hags” is uncommon English (frequency #67,494 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,494
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of hag
Corpus desk
Index EN-hags · hags · English
hags · rank #67,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,494
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH Hamden
Nearest frequency peer: Hamden (+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 “hags”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- grump
grump
32,511 corpus weight
- gyros
gyros
32,510 corpus weight
- hags
hags
32,507 corpus weight
- Hamden
Hamden
32,506 corpus weight
- haploid
haploid
32,505 corpus weight
- hawn
hawn
32,503 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hags” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hags |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hæɡz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hags” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hags is uncommon English at frequency #67,494 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /hæɡz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of hag".
hags doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hags, spelled H-A-G-S.
Definition
- 1plural of hag
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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Same letter count
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.