hawn
"hawn" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hawn” is uncommon English (frequency #67,498 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,498
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A haven or harbour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hawn · hawn · English
hawn · rank #67,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,498
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hearken
Nearest frequency peer: hearken (+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 “hawn”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hags
hags
32,507 corpus weight
- Hamden
Hamden
32,506 corpus weight
- haploid
haploid
32,505 corpus weight
- hawn
hawn
32,503 corpus weight
- hearken
hearken
32,502 corpus weight
- Hegarty
Hegarty
32,501 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hawn” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hawn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hawn” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hawn is uncommon English at frequency #67,498 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A haven or harbour.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hawn, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hawn, spelled H-A-W-N.
Definition
- 1A haven or harbour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hawn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was now quite impossible for her to get to the sands, and the only place not cut off by the sea was a tiny cove — a mere gash in the cliff midway between the two hawns, Pentire and Pentire Glaze.
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 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.