home-run
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "home-run", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "home-run" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "home-run" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“home run” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 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.
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| Headword | home run |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [hɔʊːm ɹʌn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “home run” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for home run is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hɔʊːm ɹʌn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for home run in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is home run, spelled H-O-M-E- -R-U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A 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.
- 2A 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.
- 3The portion of a journey that ends at home.
- 4A success, especially a popular success.
- 5Sexual intercourse.
- 6A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct English spelling is H-O-M-E- -R-U-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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