hundredfold
"hundredfold" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hundredfold” is uncommon English (frequency #97,122 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,122
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Multiplied by a hundred.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hundredfold · hundredfold · English
hundredfold · rank #97,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,122
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hurstville
Nearest frequency peer: Hurstville (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hundredfold”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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2,883 corpus weight
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2,882 corpus weight
- hundredfold
hundredfold
2,879 corpus weight
- Hurstville
Hurstville
2,877 corpus weight
- hydrogeology
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2,875 corpus weight
- hydrolase
hydrolase
2,874 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hundredfold” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hundredfold |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #97,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hundredfold” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hundredfold is uncommon English at frequency #97,122 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Multiplied by a hundred.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hundredfold, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold. The correct English form is hundredfold, spelled H-U-N-D-R-E-D-F-O-L-D.
Definition
- 1Multiplied by a hundred.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hundredfold appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.
Etymology
From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold.
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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