hide
/haɪd/
"hide" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hide” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,794. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,794
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hide · hide · English
hide · rank #2,794 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,794
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH heavily
Nearest frequency peer: heavily (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hide”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- expansion
expansion
97,210 corpus weight
- he'll
he'll
97,209 corpus weight
- heavily
heavily
97,208 corpus weight
- hide
hide
97,207 corpus weight
- incident
incident
97,206 corpus weight
- Irish
Irish
97,205 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hide” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | hide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /haɪd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hide” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around hide (IPA /haɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,794 among 23,837 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for hide, with forms such as "hdie", "hhide", and "hidde". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "his", "him", "hit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Pro… The correct English form is hide, spelled H-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
- 2To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He hides his magazines under the bed.
The politicians were accused of keeping information hidden from the public.
Etymology
From Middle English hiden, huden, from Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”), from Proto-West Germanic *huʀdijan (“to conceal”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdijaną (“to hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). The verb was originally weak. In the King James Version of the Bible (1611), both hid and hidden are used for the past participle. Cognates Cognate with Dutch huiden, Low German (ver)hüden, (ver)hüen (“to hide, cover, conceal”), Welsh cuddio (“to hide”), Latin custōs, Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to conceal”), Sanskrit कुहरम् (kuharam, “cave”). Related to hut and sky.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hdie
- hhide
- hidde
- hied
- ihde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hide - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
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.