Hyderabad
/ˈhaɪdəɹəbɑːd/
"hyderabad" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hyderabad” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,965. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,965
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital and largest city of Telangana, India.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hyderabad |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈhaɪdəɹəbɑːd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hyderabad” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Hyderabad (IPA /ˈhaɪdəɹəbɑːd/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,965 among 23,837 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hyderabad, with forms such as "hdyerabad", "hhyderabad", and "hydderabad". 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. 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: Borrowed from Hindi हैदराबाद (haidarābād) / Urdu حَیْدَر آبَاد (haydar ābād), from हैदर (haidar) / حَیْدَر (haydar, “lion”) + -आबाद (-ābād) / آبَاد (ābād, placename suffix). Named in honour of the Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, nicknamed "Haidar" for his lion-li… The correct English form is Hyderabad, spelled H-Y-D-E-R-A-B-A-D.
Definition
- 1The capital and largest city of Telangana, India.
- 2A district of Telangana, India.
- 3A former state, landlocked in south-central India, which was ruled from 1724 until 1948 by a line of nizams.
- 4A city in Sindh, Pakistan.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi हैदराबाद (haidarābād) / Urdu حَیْدَر آبَاد (haydar ābād), from हैदर (haidar) / حَیْدَر (haydar, “lion”) + -आबाद (-ābād) / آبَاد (ābād, placename suffix). Named in honour of the Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, nicknamed "Haidar" for his lion-like valour in battles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hdyerabad,hhyderabad,hydderabad,hydearbad,hyderaabd,hyderabadd,hyderabbad,hyderabda,hyderbaad,hyderrabad,hydreabad,hyedrabad,hyyderabad,yhderabad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hyderabad - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Hyderabad”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-Y-D-E-R-A-B-A-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈhaɪdəɹəbɑːd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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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.