hundred thousand
"hundred-thousand" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hundred thousand” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The cardinal number 100,000.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hundred thousand |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hundred thousand” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hundred thousand is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anumeral. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The cardinal number 100,000.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hundred thousand in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is hundred thousand, spelled H-U-N-D-R-E-D- -T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1The cardinal number 100,000.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “hundred thousand”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-U-N-D-R-E-D- -T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D - 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.