horst
/hɔːst/
"horst" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“horst” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,922. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,922
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
Corpus desk
Index EN-horst · horst · English
horst · rank #34,922 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,922
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Homs
Nearest frequency peer: Homs (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “horst”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Herschel
Herschel
65,083 corpus weight
- Heston
Heston
65,082 corpus weight
- homeschool
homeschool
65,081 corpus weight
- Homs
Homs
65,080 corpus weight
- horst
horst
65,079 corpus weight
- humping
humping
65,077 corpus weight
What this shows “horst” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horst |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hɔːst/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “horst”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around horst (IPA /hɔːst/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,922 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for horst, with forms such as "hhorst", "horrst", and "horsst". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hot", "hos", "HRT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Horst (“heap”). The correct English form is horst, spelled H-O-R-S-T.
Definition
- 1A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.
1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19, Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.
Etymology
From German Horst (“heap”).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorst
- horrst
- horsst
- horstt
- horts
- hosrt
- hrost
- ohrst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horst - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).