homeward
/ˈhoʊmwɚd/
"homeward" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homeward” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,678
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Towards home.
Corpus desk
Index EN-homeward · homeward · English
homeward · rank #41,678 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH homeownership
Nearest frequency peer: homeownership (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “homeward”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hollering
hollering
58,327 corpus weight
- Hollingswor…
Hollingsworth
58,326 corpus weight
- homeownersh…
homeownership
58,324 corpus weight
- homeward
homeward
58,323 corpus weight
- hounded
hounded
58,321 corpus weight
- IaC
IaC
58,320 corpus weight
What this shows “homeward” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homeward |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈhoʊmwɚd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “homeward”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around homeward (IPA /ˈhoʊmwɚd/), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #41,678 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Towards home.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for homeward, with forms such as "hhomeward", "hmoeward", and "hoemward". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Howard", "homework", "Homewood", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English homward, from Old English hāmweard, from Proto-Germanic *haimawarda, equivalent to home + -ward. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homeward”). The correct English form is homeward, spelled H-O-M-E-W-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Towards home.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homeward appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I am homeward bound.
There Enoch spoke no word to anyone, / But homeward—home—what home? had he a home? / His home, he walk'd.
Etymology
From Middle English homward, from Old English hāmweard, from Proto-Germanic *haimawarda, equivalent to home + -ward. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homeward”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhomeward
- hmoeward
- hoemward
- homeawrd
- homewadr
- homewardd
- homewarrd
- homewrad
- homewward
- hommeward
- homweard
- ohmeward
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of homeward - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "homeward", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).