hot-livered

adj

"hot-livered" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“hot-livered” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.

Corpus desk

Index EN-hot-livered · hot-livered · English

hot-livered · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for hot-livered
PropertyValue
Headwordhot-livered
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “hot-livered” in English

hot-liveredsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

hot-livered is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hot-livered, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hot-livered, spelled H-O-T---L-I-V-E-R-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how hot-livered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hot-livered"?
"hot-livered" is spelled H-O-T---L-I-V-E-R-E-D.
What does "hot-livered" mean?
As an adjective, "hot-livered" means: Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.
What language does "hot-livered" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list