hillcrest
"hillcrest" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hillcrest” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,978. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,978
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The crest of a hill
Corpus desk
Index EN-hillcrest · hillcrest · English
hillcrest · rank #49,978 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,978
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH HIIT
Nearest frequency peer: HIIT (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “hillcrest”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Helmholtz
Helmholtz
50,027 corpus weight
- Herat
Herat
50,026 corpus weight
- HIIT
HIIT
50,024 corpus weight
- hillcrest
hillcrest
50,023 corpus weight
- Hoare
Hoare
50,022 corpus weight
- hoke
hoke
50,019 corpus weight
What this shows “hillcrest” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hillcrest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hillcrest”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around hillcrest, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,978 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The crest of a hill".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for hillcrest, with forms such as "hhillcrest", "hilclrest", and "hilcrest". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hill + crest. The correct English form is hillcrest, spelled H-I-L-L-C-R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1The crest of a hill
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hillcrest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But all that sunny hillcrest seemed brightened by the marquis.
The light got red and angry as they dipped into the valley; the firs on the hillcrest stood out black and sharp, and then melted into the gray background.
Etymology
From hill + crest.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhillcrest
- hilclrest
- hilcrest
- hillccrest
- hillcerst
- hillcresst
- hillcrestt
- hillcrets
- hillcrrest
- hillcrset
- hillrcest
- hlilcrest
- ihllcrest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hillcrest - 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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hillcrest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).