hit home
"hit-home" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hit home” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. 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) - To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hit-home · hit home · English
hit home · 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 | hit home |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hit home” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hit home is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hit home in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hit home, spelled H-I-T- -H-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated.
- 2To strike its target with damaging effect.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hit home appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Do you think the message really hit home with him?
Baked goodies can really hit home with a crowd.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.