horse's ass

noun

"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.

Key facts for horse's ass
PropertyValue
Headwordhorse's ass
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “horse's ass” in English

horse's assfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    A jerk; an unpleasant, unlikable person; an asshole.
  2. 2
    A thing or person which is visually unappealing.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how horse's ass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. At the party he behaved like a real horse's ass.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "horse's ass"?
"horse's ass" is spelled H-O-R-S-E-'-S- -A-S-S.
What does "horse's ass" mean?
As a noun, "horse's ass" means: A jerk; an unpleasant, unlikable person; an asshole.
What language does "horse's ass" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list