hash sign
/hæʃ saɪn/
"hash-sign" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hash sign” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The hash or number sign (#).
Corpus desk
Index EN-hash-sign · hash sign · English
hash sign · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | hash sign |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hæʃ saɪn/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hash sign” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hash sign is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /hæʃ saɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The hash or number sign (#).".
No misspelling variants are generated for hash sign in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hash sign, spelled H-A-S-H- -S-I-G-N.
Definition
- 1The hash or number sign (#).
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.