hayfever
"hayfever" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hayfever” is uncommon English (frequency #86,346 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,346
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of hay fever.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hayfever · hayfever · English
hayfever · rank #86,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,346
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hawken
Nearest frequency peer: Hawken (-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 “hayfever”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hase
Hase
13,660 corpus weight
- hassler
hassler
13,659 corpus weight
- hatted
hatted
13,658 corpus weight
- Hauck
Hauck
13,657 corpus weight
- Hawken
Hawken
13,656 corpus weight
- hayfever
hayfever
13,655 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hayfever” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hayfever |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hayfever” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hayfever is uncommon English at frequency #86,346 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of hay fever.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hayfever, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hay + fever. The correct English form is hayfever, spelled H-A-Y-F-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of hay fever.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hayfever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
RAGWEED ( Jeffogia Fingerolia) : The hayfever king, ragweed, brings tears to the eyes of grown men.
Etymology
From hay + fever.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).