height
/haɪt/noun
height is spelled H-E-I-G-H-T. The wrong spelling people search most is hieght: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Height is a noun meaning “The distance from the base to the top of something”. The plural of height is heights.
How many letters and syllables are in height?
| Letters | 6: H-E-I-G-H-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 34 times per million words; the 2,831st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, hieght, about 210 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell height?
Height is spelled H-E-I-G-H-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for height in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is height?
Height appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce height?
- /haɪt/
- /heɪt/
Height has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-height.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-height.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with height
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: hight (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: hight.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with height?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as height.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: eighth.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of height
- heights plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does height mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The distance from the base to the top of something.
- 2
The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
– What's your height? – 180 centimetres.
- 3
The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".
- 4
The amplitude of a sinusoid.
- 5
The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.
- 6
A high point.
- 7
The highest point or maximum degree.
She's at the height of her career.
- 8
A mountain, especially a very high one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate height?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of height: hgt, hgt., ht, ht..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Height in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hauteur , taille |
| German | Höhe , Größe |
| Portuguese | altura , auge, ápice |
| Spanish | altura, altor, alteza , cumbre, cima |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does height come from?
From Middle English heighte, heiȝþe, from Old English hēahþu, hēhþo, hīehþu (“height”), Proto-West Germanic *hauhiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hauhiþō (compare *hauhaz). Equivalent to high + -t (abstract nominal suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).