Hashemite
"hashemite" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hashemite” is uncommon English (frequency #97,095 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,095
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One who lays claim to being a direct descendant of Hashim, the great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hashemite · Hashemite · English
Hashemite · rank #97,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,095
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH hax
Nearest frequency peer: hax (+3 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 “Hashemite”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Hamiltons
Hamiltons
2,912 corpus weight
- harmattan
harmattan
2,910 corpus weight
- Hashemite
Hashemite
2,906 corpus weight
- hax
hax
2,903 corpus weight
- Hefei
Hefei
2,902 corpus weight
- Heraklion
Heraklion
2,899 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Hashemite” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hashemite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hashemite” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hashemite is uncommon English at frequency #97,095 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who lays claim to being a direct descendant of Hashim, the great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Hashemite, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic هَاشِمِيّ (hāšimiyy, “Hashemite”) with English suffix -ite, from هَاشِم (hāšim, “Hashim”). The name signifies "breaker of bread", from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”). The correct English form is Hashemite, spelled H-A-S-H-E-M-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1One who lays claim to being a direct descendant of Hashim, the great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Etymology
From Arabic هَاشِمِيّ (hāšimiyy, “Hashemite”) with English suffix -ite, from هَاشِم (hāšim, “Hashim”). The name signifies "breaker of bread", from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”).
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 9 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.