holocaust
/ˈhɒl.ə(ʊ)ˌkɔːst/
"holocaust" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“holocaust” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,434
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-holocaust · holocaust · English
holocaust · rank #8,434 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,434
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH homer
Nearest frequency peer: homer (+1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “holocaust”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hacking
hacking
91,571 corpus weight
- heir
heir
91,569 corpus weight
- holocaust
holocaust
91,567 corpus weight
- homer
homer
91,566 corpus weight
- hon
hon
91,565 corpus weight
- Hopkins
Hopkins
91,564 corpus weight
What this shows “holocaust” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holocaust |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɒl.ə(ʊ)ˌkɔːst/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “holocaust”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around holocaust (IPA /ˈhɒl.ə(ʊ)ˌkɔːst/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,434 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for holocaust, with forms such as "hholocaust", "hloocaust", and "holcoaust". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman holocauste, Old French holocauste, olocauste (modern French holocaust), from Late Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), the n… The correct English form is holocaust, spelled H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
- 2A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
- 3Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
- 4Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
- 5Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how holocaust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And the ſcribe ſayde vnto hym: well maſter⸝ thou haſt ſayde the trugthe⸝ thatt there ys one God⸝ and that there is none but he. And to love hym with all the herte⸝ and with all the mynde⸝ and with all the ſoule⸝ ãd with all the ſtrẽgthe. And to love a mans nehbour as hym ſilfe⸝ ys a greater thynge then all holocauſtꝭ [holocaustes] and ſacrifiſes.
[…] Iſaac carried on his back the wood for the ſacrifice; which being an holocauſt or burnt offering to be conſumed unto aſhes, we cannot well conceive the wood a burthen for a boy; but ſuch a one unto Iſaac, as that which it typified was unto Chriſt, that is the wood or croſſe whereon he ſuffered; […]
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman holocauste, Old French holocauste, olocauste (modern French holocaust), from Late Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), the neuter form of ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), from ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) (from καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-). The verb is derived from the noun. As regards verb sense 3 (“to subject (a group of people) to a holocaust”), compare the use of genocide as a verb.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hholocaust
- hloocaust
- holcoaust
- hollocaust
- holoacust
- holocasut
- holocausst
- holocaustt
- holocauts
- holoccaust
- holocuast
- hoolcaust
- ohlocaust
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of holocaust - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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