holt
/hɒlt/
"holt" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“holt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,721
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-holt · holt · English
holt · rank #11,721 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,721
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH highlighting
Nearest frequency peer: highlighting (-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 “holt”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- heartbeat
heartbeat
88,283 corpus weight
- heh
heh
88,282 corpus weight
- highlighting
highlighting
88,281 corpus weight
- holt
holt
88,280 corpus weight
- honourable
honourable
88,279 corpus weight
- illnesses
illnesses
88,278 corpus weight
What this shows “holt” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hɒlt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “holt”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around holt (IPA /hɒlt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,721 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for holt, with forms such as "hholt", "hlot", and "hollt". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "how", "hot", "hop", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *k… The correct English form is holt, spelled H-O-L-T.
Definition
- 1A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
- 2The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how holt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;
[the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
Etymology
From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *klā- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”). Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol ("stake"), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hholt
- hlot
- hollt
- holtt
- hotl
- ohlt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of holt - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "holt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).