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hatband

noun

hatband is a noun meaning “A band fastened around a hat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-T-B-A-N-D, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hatband is hatbands.

What does hatband mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A band fastened around a hat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hatband

  • hatbands plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is hatband?

Hatband appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Hatband in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense band about a hat:

LanguageWords
Frenchtour de chapeau
GermanHutschnur
Portuguesecinteiro
Spanishcinta del sombrero

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does hatband come from?

From hat + band.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).