hostname
"hostname" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hostname” is an uncommon English word, ranked #89,467 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #89,467
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The unique name by which any device attached to a computer network is known.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hostname |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hostname” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for hostname is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #89,467 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
hostname doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From host + name. The correct English form is hostname, spelled H-O-S-T-N-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1The unique name by which any device attached to a computer network is known.
- 2A computer or other network device's Internet domain name; a fully qualified hostname.
- 3The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period; an unqualified hostname.
Etymology
From host + name.
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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Using “hostname”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-S-T-N-A-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.