headhunting

noun, verb

headhunting is spelled H-E-A-D-H-U-N-T-I-N-G: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, headhunting means “The practice of cutting off and preserving the head of one's enemy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of headhunting is headhuntings.

How many letters and syllables are in headhunting?

Letters	11: H-E-A-D-H-U-N-T-I-N-G
In writing	about once in every 8 million words; the 86,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is headhunting?

Headhunting appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st most frequent word form in the list.

headhunting0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce headhunting?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-headhunting.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of headhunting

headhuntings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does headhunting mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
The practice of cutting off and preserving the head of one's enemy.
2
The active recruitment of executive or talented personnel.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of headhunt (a form of headhunt)