Hattiesburg
"hattiesburg" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hattiesburg” is uncommon English (frequency #52,370 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,370
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. A small portion of the city is in Lamar County.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hattiesburg · Hattiesburg · English
Hattiesburg · rank #52,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,370
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hasidic
Nearest frequency peer: Hasidic (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Hattiesburg”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hannigan
Hannigan
47,635 corpus weight
- Harkin
Harkin
47,634 corpus weight
- Hasidic
Hasidic
47,632 corpus weight
- Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg
47,631 corpus weight
- haut
haut
47,630 corpus weight
- helmsman
helmsman
47,627 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Hattiesburg” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hattiesburg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Hattiesburg” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Hattiesburg is uncommon English at frequency #52,370 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the county seat of Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. A small portion of the city is in Lamar County.".
Hattiesburg doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hattie (“female name”) + -burg. The correct English form is Hattiesburg, spelled H-A-T-T-I-E-S-B-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. A small portion of the city is in Lamar County.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hattiesburg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“First you go to Hattiesburg,” Kinney said. “That should be fairly easy. It’s written big on the map.”
Etymology
From Hattie (“female name”) + -burg.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).