hothead
"hothead" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hothead” is uncommon English (frequency #75,971 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,971
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who becomes angry easily or goes in search of arguments or fights.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hothead · hothead · English
hothead · rank #75,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,971
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hopwood
Nearest frequency peer: Hopwood (-2 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 “hothead”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hoedown
hoedown
24,037 corpus weight
- hoofs
hoofs
24,033 corpus weight
- Hopwood
Hopwood
24,032 corpus weight
- hothead
hothead
24,030 corpus weight
- Huai
Huai
24,028 corpus weight
- HuffPo
HuffPo
24,027 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hothead” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hothead |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hothead” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hothead is uncommon English at frequency #75,971 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hothead has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hot + head. Compare English hotbrain (“a hothead”); Middle English hot-heorte, hat-heorte (“anger”), Old English hātheort (“furious, angry, irascible, passionate, ardent”, literally “hot-heart”). The correct English form is hothead, spelled H-O-T-H-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1One who becomes angry easily or goes in search of arguments or fights.
- 2One who reacts quickly and without thinking carefully first.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hothead appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The club was full of eager young hotheads who never seemed to be able to agree on anything.
Someone get this hothead out of here before he does some damage.
Etymology
From hot + head. Compare English hotbrain (“a hothead”); Middle English hot-heorte, hat-heorte (“anger”), Old English hātheort (“furious, angry, irascible, passionate, ardent”, literally “hot-heart”).
This word in other languages
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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