hostname
"hostname" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hostname” is uncommon English (frequency #89,467 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,467
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The unique name by which any device attached to a computer network is known.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hostname · hostname · English
hostname · rank #89,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,467
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hootenanny
Nearest frequency peer: hootenanny (-3 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.
Long-tail ranks near “hostname”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hols
hols
10,540 corpus weight
- hominin
hominin
10,539 corpus weight
- Honiton
Honiton
10,538 corpus weight
- hootenanny
hootenanny
10,537 corpus weight
- hostname
hostname
10,534 corpus weight
- hullo
hullo
10,531 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hostname” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “hostname” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hostname is uncommon English at frequency #89,467 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).