homespun
/ˈhoʊmˌspʌn/
"homespun" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homespun” is uncommon English (frequency #54,837 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,837
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spun in the home.
Corpus desk
Index EN-homespun · homespun · English
homespun · rank #54,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,837
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hofer
Nearest frequency peer: Hofer (-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 “homespun”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- heya
heya
45,167 corpus weight
- hideously
hideously
45,166 corpus weight
- Hofer
Hofer
45,165 corpus weight
- homespun
homespun
45,164 corpus weight
- homozygous
homozygous
45,162 corpus weight
- Horta
Horta
45,161 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “homespun” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homespun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈhoʊmˌspʌn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “homespun” in English
Rare enough to double-check
homespun is uncommon English at frequency #54,837 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈhoʊmˌspʌn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
homespun has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From home + spun. The correct English form is homespun, spelled H-O-M-E-S-P-U-N.
Definition
- 1Spun in the home.
- 2Woven in the home.
- 3Made from homespun fabric.
- 4Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homespun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
homespun country garbs
He became more and more excited; he rose from the sofa, walked up and down the floor with hurried steps and fought with his hands in the air, till the light flickered hither and thither, while the sweeping tail of his long grey home-spun coat described long circles every time he swung himself round and raised himself on his longer leg, for, like Tyrtaeus…
Etymology
From home + spun.
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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