hasty
/ˈheɪsti/
"hasty" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hasty” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,854
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hasty · hasty · English
hasty · rank #19,854 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,854
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hathaway
Nearest frequency peer: Hathaway (+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 “hasty”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hangar
hangar
80,150 corpus weight
- hardworking
hardworking
80,149 corpus weight
- hasty
hasty
80,147 corpus weight
- Hathaway
Hathaway
80,146 corpus weight
- HDMI
HDMI
80,145 corpus weight
- Hermes
Hermes
80,144 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hasty” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | hasty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈheɪsti/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hasty” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hasty (IPA /ˈheɪsti/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,854 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hasty, with forms such as "ahsty", "hassty", and "hastty". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hat", "hay", "hate", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”… The correct English form is hasty, spelled H-A-S-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- 2Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- 3Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- 4Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- 5Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- 6Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).
- 7Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
- 8Heavy, violent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hasty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.
If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, fe…
Etymology
From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahsty
- hassty
- hastty
- hastyy
- hasyt
- hatsy
- hhasty
- hsaty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hasty - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hasty", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
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.