hissed
/hɪst/
"hissed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hissed” is uncommon English (frequency #52,997 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,997
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of hiss
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hissed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /hɪst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hissed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hissed is uncommon English at frequency #52,997 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /hɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of hiss".
Zero misspellings are on record for hissed in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is hissed, spelled H-I-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of hiss
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 “hissed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-I-S-S-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /hɪst/ (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.