hornblower
"hornblower" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hornblower” is uncommon English (frequency #60,866 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,866
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Someone or something that blows a horn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hornblower |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hornblower” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hornblower is uncommon English at frequency #60,866 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone or something that blows a horn.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hornblower in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From horn + blower, or from Old English hornblāwere. The correct English form is hornblower, spelled H-O-R-N-B-L-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone or something that blows a horn.
Etymology
From horn + blower, or from Old English hornblāwere.
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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Using “hornblower”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-R-N-B-L-O-W-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.