homescreen
"homescreen" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homescreen” is uncommon English (frequency #77,772 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,772
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The main or first interface shown in a graphical user interface.
Corpus desk
Index EN-homescreen · homescreen · English
homescreen · rank #77,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,772
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Honan
Nearest frequency peer: Honan (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “homescreen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hillingdon
Hillingdon
22,234 corpus weight
- hisself
hisself
22,232 corpus weight
- holography
holography
22,231 corpus weight
- homescreen
homescreen
22,229 corpus weight
- Honan
Honan
22,228 corpus weight
- horsing
horsing
22,226 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “homescreen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homescreen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “homescreen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
homescreen is uncommon English at frequency #77,772 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The main or first interface shown in a graphical user interface.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for homescreen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From home + screen. The correct English form is homescreen, spelled H-O-M-E-S-C-R-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1The main or first interface shown in a graphical user interface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how homescreen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gary Bettman pulls his iPhone, with its homescreen picture of his grandchildren, from his pocket and dials up Colin Campbell, the league's director of hockey operations...
Etymology
From home + screen.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).