Hufflepuff
/ˈhʌfəlˌpʌf/
"hufflepuff" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hufflepuff” is uncommon English (frequency #58,086 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,086
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person having traits associated with Hufflepuff house from the Harry Potter series, including patience, justice, and loyalty or an affinity for badgers or the colours yellow and black.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hufflepuff |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhʌfəlˌpʌf/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hufflepuff” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hufflepuff is uncommon English at frequency #58,086 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhʌfəlˌpʌf/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person having traits associated with Hufflepuff house from the Harry Potter series, including patience, justice, and loyalty or an affinity for badgers or the colours yellow and black.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hufflepuff in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Coined by British author and philanthropist J. K. Rowling, presumably from huff + -le + puff. The correct English form is Hufflepuff, spelled H-U-F-F-L-E-P-U-F-F.
Definition
- 1A person having traits associated with Hufflepuff house from the Harry Potter series, including patience, justice, and loyalty or an affinity for badgers or the colours yellow and black.
Etymology
Coined by British author and philanthropist J. K. Rowling, presumably from huff + -le + puff.
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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Using “Hufflepuff”
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- The one correct English spelling is H-U-F-F-L-E-P-U-F-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.