hot-headed
"hot-headed" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hot-headed” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of hotheaded.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hot-headed · hot-headed · English
hot-headed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hot-headed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hot-headed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hot-headed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of hotheaded.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hot-headed, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hot-headed, spelled H-O-T---H-E-A-D-E-D.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of hotheaded.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hot-headed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bat who will the next Democratic President be? Harry A. Wise? The eloquent Virginian is hotter-headed than we are. We have no objection to him, however. A radical lawyer very often makes a conservative judge, and the peace of nations is never securer than when a great soldier bears his hand upon the helm of State.
They were hard now with frost, sodden with autumn rains, and looked black, mourning, and desolate, as the unhappy fate which had befallen one of the best and noblest hearted, yet hottest-headed men that ever loved the sunlight, and at all times, unless under great excitement, God’s dumb creatures.
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.