hunting dog
"hunting-dog" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hunting dog” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any type of domestic dog that is used by humans as an aid in hunting; any individual of such a breed, especially one that does hunting work, but also any pet of such a breed.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hunting dog |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hunting dog” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hunting dog is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hunting dog doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hunting dog, spelled H-U-N-T-I-N-G- -D-O-G.
Definition
- 1Any type of domestic dog that is used by humans as an aid in hunting; any individual of such a breed, especially one that does hunting work, but also any pet of such a breed.
- 2Ellipsis of African hunting dog, a wild dog named for its hunting prowess; like all wild dogs, it hunts prey.
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 “hunting dog”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-U-N-T-I-N-G- -D-O-G - 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.