homesickness
"homesickness" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homesickness” is uncommon English (frequency #58,083 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,083
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.
Corpus desk
Index EN-homesickness · homesickness · English
homesickness · rank #58,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,083
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH homoerotic
Nearest frequency peer: homoerotic (+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 “homesickness”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- HMG
HMG
41,922 corpus weight
- homesickness
homesickness
41,918 corpus weight
- homoerotic
homoerotic
41,917 corpus weight
- hooliganism
hooliganism
41,916 corpus weight
- Hufflepuff
Hufflepuff
41,915 corpus weight
- Huguenot
Huguenot
41,914 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “homesickness” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homesickness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “homesickness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
homesickness is uncommon English at frequency #58,083 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for homesickness in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home + sickness. The correct English form is homesickness, spelled H-O-M-E-S-I-C-K-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.
Etymology
Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home + sickness.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).