haugh
/hɔː/
"haugh" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“haugh” is uncommon English (frequency #81,392 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,392
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
Corpus desk
Index EN-haugh · haugh · English
haugh · rank #81,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,392
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hastie
Nearest frequency peer: Hastie (-2 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 “haugh”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hanke
Hanke
18,615 corpus weight
- harr
harr
18,612 corpus weight
- Hastie
Hastie
18,611 corpus weight
- haugh
haugh
18,609 corpus weight
- Hebden
Hebden
18,604 corpus weight
- Hebridean
Hebridean
18,603 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “haugh” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haugh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hɔː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “haugh” in English
Rare enough to double-check
haugh is uncommon English at frequency #81,392 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /hɔː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.".
haugh doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale. The correct English form is haugh, spelled H-A-U-G-H.
Definition
- 1A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haugh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]
The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]
Etymology
From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.
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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