hayfield
"hayfield" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hayfield” is uncommon English (frequency #82,377 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,377
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A field of hay.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hayfield · hayfield · English
hayfield · rank #82,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,377
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Haverfordwest
Nearest frequency peer: Haverfordwest (-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 “hayfield”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hata
Hata
17,627 corpus weight
- Haverfordwe…
Haverfordwest
17,625 corpus weight
- hayfield
hayfield
17,624 corpus weight
- Hebe
Hebe
17,623 corpus weight
- Hesperia
Hesperia
17,621 corpus weight
- heteronorma…
heteronormative
17,620 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hayfield” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hayfield |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hayfield” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hayfield is uncommon English at frequency #82,377 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A field of hay.".
hayfield has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hay + field. The correct English form is hayfield, spelled H-A-Y-F-I-E-L-D.
Definition
- 1A field of hay.
Etymology
From hay + field.
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).