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horsehead

noun

horsehead is spelled H-O-R-S-E-H-E-A-D: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, horsehead means “The head of a horse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of horsehead is horseheads.

How many letters and syllables are in horsehead?

Letters9: H-O-R-S-E-H-E-A-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is horsehead?

Horsehead appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce horsehead?

    Horsehead has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of horsehead

    • horseheads plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does horsehead mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      The head of a horse.

    2. 2

      A pump for pumping oil from an oil well.

    3. 3

      A steel girder supporting the roof of a mine tunnel.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Horsehead in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    LanguageWords
    GermanPferdekopf (head of a horse), Pferdekopfpumpe (pump)

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

    Where does horsehead come from?

    From horse + head.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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