# header

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈhɛdɚ/ · frequency rank #8,552

## Definitions
1. The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
2. Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
3. Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
4. A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
5. The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
6. Clipping of header file.
7. the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
8. A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
9. A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
10. A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
11. The act of hitting the ball with the head.
12. Someone who heads the ball.
13. A headlong fall, jump or dive.
14. A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
15. A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
16. The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
17. One who puts a head on something.
18. A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).

## Etymology
From head + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **hear** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-hear)
- **heads** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heads)
- **heady** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heady)
- **heave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heave)
- **heaven** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heaven)
- **holder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-holder)
- **heated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heated)
- **healed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-healed)
- **heater** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heater)
- **helper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-helper)
- **hinder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-hinder)
- **healer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-healer)
- **heller** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heller)
- **Hester** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-hester)
- **Healey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-healey)
- **heaped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heaped)
- **herder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-herder)
- **heeded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heeded)
- **heifer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-heifer)
- **Hodder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-hodder)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ehader`, `haeder`, `headder`, `headerr`, `headre`, `heaedr`, `hedaer`, `hheader`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/header