haughty
/ˈhɔːti/
"haughty" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“haughty” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #42,690 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #42,690
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haughty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈhɔːti/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “haughty” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for haughty is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈhɔːti/. Corpus data places it at rank #42,690 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for haughty, with forms such as "ahughty", "haguhty", and "haugghty". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of English naughty and English high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from Middle Engli… The correct English form is haughty, spelled H-A-U-G-H-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
Etymology
From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of English naughty and English high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from Middle English haute (“self-important”), from Old French haut, hault (“high, lofty”), from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, lofty, proud”) and Latin altus (“high, deep”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahughty,haguhty,haugghty,haughhty,haughtty,haughtyy,haughyt,haugthy,hauhgty,hhaughty,huaghty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of haughty - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “haughty”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-A-U-G-H-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈhɔːti/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.