hammerstone
"hammerstone" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hammerstone” 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) - A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hammerstone · hammerstone · English
hammerstone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | hammerstone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hammerstone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hammerstone is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hammerstone, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hammer + stone. The correct English form is hammerstone, spelled H-A-M-M-E-R-S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A type of stone used to hit or strike in a similar way to a modern-day hammer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hammerstone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Striking a hand-held isotropic block or cobble (a core) with a hammerstone initiates a cone-shaped crack at roughly 60° from the axis of force, exemplified by the hole in a plate glass window made by a pellet gun (18, 19 ).
On the other hand, in the same crannog, a hammerstone broken in two was found, each half in a different place, as were two parts of a figurine at Dumbuck.
Etymology
From hammer + stone.
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.