hereabouts
"hereabouts" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hereabouts” is uncommon English (frequency #80,528 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,528
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Near here.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hereabouts · hereabouts · English
hereabouts · rank #80,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,528
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Henn
Nearest frequency peer: Henn (-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 “hereabouts”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Henn
Henn
19,474 corpus weight
- hereabouts
hereabouts
19,473 corpus weight
- hexane
hexane
19,472 corpus weight
- Hiroko
Hiroko
19,470 corpus weight
- histrionics
histrionics
19,469 corpus weight
- HMI
HMI
19,468 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hereabouts” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hereabouts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hereabouts” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hereabouts is uncommon English at frequency #80,528 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Near here.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hereabouts, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive). The correct English form is hereabouts, spelled H-E-R-E-A-B-O-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1Near here.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hereabouts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The people hereabouts are pretty decent folk.
How far might you call yourselves from the marshes, hereabouts? Not above a mile, I reckon?
Etymology
From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive).
This word in other languages
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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