Hittite
/ˈhɪ.taɪt/
"hittite" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hittite” is uncommon English (frequency #53,601 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,601
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hittite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪ.taɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hittite” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hittite is uncommon English at frequency #53,601 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhɪ.taɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.".
Hittite doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Biblical Hebrew חִתִּי (ḥittî), from Hittite 𒄩𒋾 (ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related to Hatti. In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to the Biblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th c… The correct English form is Hittite, spelled H-I-T-T-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew חִתִּי (ḥittî), from Hittite 𒄩𒋾 (ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related to Hatti. In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to the Biblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighboring Hattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as [script needed] (ḫattili). It is now known that the Hittites called themselves 𒉈𒋗𒈨𒉌𒌍 (ne-šu-me-né-eš /nešumeneš/, “people from the city of Nesha”), hence the much less used alternative name Nesite or Neshite.
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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 “Hittite”
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- The one correct English spelling is H-I-T-T-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.