horse's ass
"horse-s-ass" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“horse's ass” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A jerk; an unpleasant, unlikable person; an asshole.
Corpus desk
Index EN-horse-s-ass · horse's ass · English
horse's ass · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horse's ass |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “horse's ass” in English
Rare enough to double-check
horse's ass is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
horse's ass has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is horse's ass, spelled H-O-R-S-E-'-S- -A-S-S.
Definition
- 1A jerk; an unpleasant, unlikable person; an asshole.
- 2A thing or person which is visually unappealing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horse's ass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At the party he behaved like a real horse's ass.
That is one horse's ass of a paint job.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.