Hermit Kingdom

name

"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.

Key facts for Hermit Kingdom
PropertyValue
HeadwordHermit Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Hermit Kingdom” sits in English frequency

Hermit Kingdom falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    North Korea.
  2. 2
    Synonym 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Hermit Kingdom"?
"Hermit Kingdom" is spelled H-E-R-M-I-T- -K-I-N-G-D-O-M.
What does "Hermit Kingdom" mean?
As a proper noun, "Hermit Kingdom" means: North Korea.
What language does "Hermit Kingdom" come from?
"Hermit Kingdom" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “Hermit Kingdom”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list