hippies
/ˈhɪpiz/
"hippies" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hippies” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,494. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,494
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of hippie
Corpus desk
Index EN-hippies · hippies · English
hippies · rank #27,494 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,494
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hideout
Nearest frequency peer: hideout (-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 “hippies”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hearsay
hearsay
72,510 corpus weight
- Hershey
Hershey
72,509 corpus weight
- hideout
hideout
72,508 corpus weight
- hippies
hippies
72,507 corpus weight
- hoa
hoa
72,506 corpus weight
- Hobbes
Hobbes
72,505 corpus weight
What this shows “hippies” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | hippies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪpiz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hippies”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hippies (IPA /ˈhɪpiz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,494 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hippies, with forms such as "hhippies", "hipies", and "hipipes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hippie", "happier", "happiest", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is hippies, spelled H-I-P-P-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of hippie
- 2plural of hippy
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhippies
- hipies
- hipipes
- hippeis
- hippiess
- hippise
- hpipies
- ihppies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hippies - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "hippies", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).