hire car
"hire-car" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hire car” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A car that is hired, or available for hire.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hire-car · hire car · English
hire car · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hire car |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hire car” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hire car is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A car that is hired, or available for hire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hire car in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is hire car, spelled H-I-R-E- -C-A-R.
Definition
- 1A car that is hired, or available for hire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hire car appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mr. Raymond said that he had been encouraged by the number of tourists in Britain who had been making their long-distance journeys to holiday or touring centres by rail and picking up self-drive hire cars at the further rail terminal.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.