hentai
/ˈhɛntaɪ/
"hentai" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hentai” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,822. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,822
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hentai · hentai · English
hentai · rank #21,822 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,822
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hodgson
Nearest frequency peer: Hodgson (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “hentai”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Hanks
Hanks
78,183 corpus weight
- Heinz
Heinz
78,181 corpus weight
- hentai
hentai
78,179 corpus weight
- Hodgson
Hodgson
78,178 corpus weight
- homogeneous
homogeneous
78,177 corpus weight
- hye
hye
78,176 corpus weight
What this shows “hentai” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hentai |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɛntaɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hentai”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hentai (IPA /ˈhɛntaɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,822 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hentai, with forms such as "ehntai", "henati", and "henntai". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "henna", "Henan", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変(へん)態(たい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変(へん)態(たい)性(せい)欲(よく)者(しゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”). The correct English form is hentai, spelled H-E-N-T-A-I.
Definition
- 1A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hentai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love
X defines adult content as […] This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".
Etymology
Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変(へん)態(たい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変(へん)態(たい)性(せい)欲(よく)者(しゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehntai
- henati
- henntai
- hentia
- henttai
- hetnai
- hhentai
- hnetai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hentai - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hentai", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).