horry
"horry" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“horry” is uncommon English (frequency #62,203 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,203
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - impure; unclean; disgustingly dirty; foul
Corpus desk
Index EN-horry · horry · English
horry · rank #62,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,203
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Houlihan
Nearest frequency peer: Houlihan (+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 “horry”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- heterozygous
heterozygous
37,803 corpus weight
- Higginbotham
Higginbotham
37,802 corpus weight
- horry
horry
37,798 corpus weight
- Houlihan
Houlihan
37,797 corpus weight
- Howlett
Howlett
37,796 corpus weight
- hulks
hulks
37,795 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “horry” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “horry” in English
Rare enough to double-check
horry is uncommon English at frequency #62,203 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "impure; unclean; disgustingly dirty; foul".
horry doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hory, hoory, from Old English horiġ, horhiġ (“foul, unclean”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurhwīg, from Proto-Germanic *hurhwīgaz (“foul, filthy, soiled, unclean”). Cognate with Middle High German horwig, horwic, horig, horg (“muddy, filt… The correct English form is horry, spelled H-O-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1impure; unclean; disgustingly dirty; foul
Etymology
From Middle English hory, hoory, from Old English horiġ, horhiġ (“foul, unclean”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurhwīg, from Proto-Germanic *hurhwīgaz (“foul, filthy, soiled, unclean”). Cognate with Middle High German horwig, horwic, horig, horg (“muddy, filthy”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).