hunts
/hʌnts/
"hunts" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hunts” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,340. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,340
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of hunt
Corpus desk
Index EN-hunts · hunts · English
hunts · rank #18,340 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,340
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH HUD
Nearest frequency peer: HUD (-1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “hunts”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hipster
hipster
81,665 corpus weight
- hostess
hostess
81,663 corpus weight
- HUD
HUD
81,662 corpus weight
- hunts
hunts
81,661 corpus weight
- iceberg
iceberg
81,660 corpus weight
- ignite
ignite
81,658 corpus weight
What this shows “hunts” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hunts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hʌnts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hunts”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hunts (IPA /hʌnts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,340 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of hunt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hunts, with forms such as "hhunts", "hnuts", and "hunnts". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hut", "Hus", "hurt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hunts, spelled H-U-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of hunt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhunts
- hnuts
- hunnts
- hunst
- huntss
- huntts
- hutns
- uhnts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hunts - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hunts", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).