hizb
"hizb" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hizb” is uncommon English (frequency #71,569 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,569
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - each of the roughly equilongitudinal 60 parts in which the Quran has been traditionally divided to ease its reading and memorization
Corpus desk
Index EN-hizb · hizb · English
hizb · rank #71,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,569
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH holies
Nearest frequency peer: holies (+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 “hizb”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hegelian
Hegelian
28,437 corpus weight
- hemispheric
hemispheric
28,436 corpus weight
- hizb
hizb
28,432 corpus weight
- holies
holies
28,430 corpus weight
- hooky
hooky
28,428 corpus weight
- Howrah
Howrah
28,427 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hizb” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hizb |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hizb” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hizb is uncommon English at frequency #71,569 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "each of the roughly equilongitudinal 60 parts in which the Quran has been traditionally divided to ease its reading and memorization".
hizb doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from Arabic حِزْب (ḥizb, “group, band, faction”) The correct English form is hizb, spelled H-I-Z-B.
Definition
- 1each of the roughly equilongitudinal 60 parts in which the Quran has been traditionally divided to ease its reading and memorization
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Arabic حِزْب (ḥizb, “group, band, faction”)
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).