hydrocarbon
"hydrocarbon" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hydrocarbon” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,876. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,876
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydrocarbon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #27,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hydrocarbon” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around hydrocarbon, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,876 among 23,837 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for hydrocarbon, with forms such as "hdyrocarbon", "hhydrocarbon", and "hyddrocarbon". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hydro- + carbon. The correct English form is hydrocarbon, spelled H-Y-D-R-O-C-A-R-B-O-N.
Definition
- 1A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
Etymology
From hydro- + carbon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hdyrocarbon
- hhydrocarbon
- hyddrocarbon
- hydorcarbon
- hydrcoarbon
- hydroacrbon
- hydrocabron
- hydrocarbbon
- hydrocarbno
- hydrocarbonn
- hydrocarobn
- hydrocarrbon
- hydroccarbon
- hydrocrabon
- hydrrocarbon
- hyrdocarbon
- hyydrocarbon
- yhdrocarbon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hydrocarbon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “hydrocarbon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-Y-D-R-O-C-A-R-B-O-N - 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.