Hittite
/ˈhɪ.taɪt/
"hittite" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hittite” is uncommon English (frequency #53,601 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,601
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hittite · Hittite · English
Hittite · rank #53,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,601
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hermeneutics
Nearest frequency peer: hermeneutics (-2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Hittite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Heracles
Heracles
46,405 corpus weight
- heraldry
heraldry
46,404 corpus weight
- hermeneutics
hermeneutics
46,402 corpus weight
- Hittite
Hittite
46,400 corpus weight
- hori
hori
46,397 corpus weight
- howitzer
howitzer
46,395 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Hittite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Hittite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Hittite is uncommon English at frequency #53,601 among 2,646 “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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