Hermit Kingdom
"hermit-kingdom" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hermit Kingdom” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - North Korea.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hermit Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hermit Kingdom” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hermit Kingdom is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Hermit Kingdom doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Hermit Kingdom, spelled H-E-R-M-I-T- -K-I-N-G-D-O-M.
Definition
- 1North Korea.
- 2Synonym of Tibet (“a former country in East Asia that existed from 1912 until its annexation by China in 1951.”)
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Hermit Kingdom”
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- The one correct English spelling is H-E-R-M-I-T- -K-I-N-G-D-O-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.