hippodrome
/ˈhɪpəˌdɹəʊm/
"hippodrome" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hippodrome” is an uncommon English word, ranked #61,534 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #61,534
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A horse racing course.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hippodrome |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪpəˌdɹəʊm/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hippodrome” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for hippodrome is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈhɪpəˌdɹəʊm/. Corpus data places it at rank #61,534 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
hippodrome doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos Proto-Hellenic *íkkʷos Ancient Greek ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos) Proto-Indo-European *drem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos) Anci… The correct English form is hippodrome, spelled H-I-P-P-O-D-R-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1A horse racing course.
- 2A fraudulent sporting contest with a predetermined winner.
- 3A circus with equestrian performances.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos Proto-Hellenic *íkkʷos Ancient Greek ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos) Proto-Indo-European *drem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos) Ancient Greek ῐ̔ππόδρομος (hĭppódromos)bor. Latin hippodromoslbor. French hippodromebor. English hippodrome Borrowed from French hippodrome, a learned borrowing from Latin hippodromos, borrowed from Ancient Greek ῐ̔ππόδρομος (hĭppódromos), from ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos, “horse”) + δρόμος (drómos, “street”). By surface analysis, hippo- + -drome.
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 “hippodrome”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-I-P-P-O-D-R-O-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈhɪpəˌdɹəʊm/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.