home run

[hɔʊːm ɹʌn]

/[hɔʊːm ɹʌn]/ noun

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"home-run" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“home run” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.

Corpus desk

Index EN-home-run · home run · English

home run · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for home run
PropertyValue
Headwordhome run
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[hɔʊːm ɹʌn]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “home run” sits in English frequency

home runfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

home run is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [hɔʊːm ɹʌn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

home run has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is home run, spelled H-O-M-E- -R-U-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
  2. 2
    A three-base hit, a legal hit where the batter gets to third base without stopping and without the opposing team attempting to put the batter out on earlier bases, scoring one run immediately.
  3. 3
    The portion of a journey that ends at home.
  4. 4
    A success, especially a popular success.
  5. 5
    Sexual intercourse.
  6. 6
    A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how home run appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The first baseman hit a home run to lead off the ninth.
  2. I'm on the home run.

This word in other languages

jonrón(Español)coup de circuit(Français)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "home run"?
"home run" is spelled H-O-M-E- -R-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is [hɔʊːm ɹʌn].
What does "home run" mean?
As a noun, "home run" means: A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
How do you pronounce "home run"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "home run" is [hɔʊːm ɹʌn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "home run" come from?
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list