hotheaded
"hotheaded" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hotheaded” is uncommon English (frequency #97,118 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,118
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hotheaded · hotheaded · English
hotheaded · rank #97,118 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,118
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH housebuilding
Nearest frequency peer: housebuilding (+1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hotheaded”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Hinshaw
Hinshaw
2,889 corpus weight
- Hirono
Hirono
2,888 corpus weight
- Hoeven
Hoeven
2,885 corpus weight
- hotheaded
hotheaded
2,883 corpus weight
- housebuildi…
housebuilding
2,882 corpus weight
- hundredfold
hundredfold
2,879 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hotheaded” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hotheaded |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hotheaded” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hotheaded is uncommon English at frequency #97,118 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hotheaded in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hot + headed. The correct English form is hotheaded, spelled H-O-T-H-E-A-D-E-D.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hotheaded appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Such an opportunity can hardly again occur to an ancient and grey-haired man; and to see it lost by the madcap spleen of a hot-headed boy!
"But I am!" flashed the young man, as if he had been misunderstood. "Listen. You're like all boys—hot-headed an' hasty. Let me talk a little," resumed Anderson.
Etymology
From hot + headed.
Antonyms
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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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