Hesiod
/ˈhiː.si.əd/
"hesiod" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hesiod” is uncommon English (frequency #70,742 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,742
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancient Greek poet and rhapsodist of the 8th century BCE, known as the first author of didactic verse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hesiod |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈhiː.si.əd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hesiod” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hesiod is uncommon English at frequency #70,742 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈhiː.si.əd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancient Greek poet and rhapsodist of the 8th century BCE, known as the first author of didactic verse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hesiod, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Semi-learned borrowing from Latin Hēsiodus, from Ancient Greek Ἡσίοδος (Hēsíodos). The correct English form is Hesiod, spelled H-E-S-I-O-D.
Definition
- 1Ancient Greek poet and rhapsodist of the 8th century BCE, known as the first author of didactic verse.
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin Hēsiodus, from Ancient Greek Ἡσίοδος (Hēsíodos).
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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Using “Hesiod”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-E-S-I-O-D - 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.