hundred

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The English entry for hundred is 7 letters long, classified as anum, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈhʌn.dɹəd/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,000 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for hundred, with forms such as "hhundred", "hnudred", and "hudnred". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "hunted", "hundreds", "hundredth", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundaradą, from *hundą (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm) + *radą (“count”), a neuter variant of *radō (“row, line, series”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is hundred, spelled H-U-N-D-R-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.