hot-tempered
"hot-tempered" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hot-tempered” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Becoming very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hot-tempered · hot-tempered · English
hot-tempered · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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-tempered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hot-tempered” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hot-tempered is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Becoming very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hot-tempered, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is hot-tempered, spelled H-O-T---T-E-M-P-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Becoming very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hot-tempered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: quick-tempered, short-tempered
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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.
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