hymn
/hɪm/
"hymn" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hymn” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,791
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hymn · hymn · English
hymn · rank #12,791 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,791
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hostility
Nearest frequency peer: hostility (-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 “hymn”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- homage
homage
87,213 corpus weight
- homo
homo
87,212 corpus weight
- hostility
hostility
87,211 corpus weight
- hymn
hymn
87,210 corpus weight
- hypothetical
hypothetical
87,209 corpus weight
- informative
informative
87,208 corpus weight
What this shows “hymn” 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 | hymn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hɪm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hymn”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hymn (IPA /hɪm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,791 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hymn, with forms such as "hhymn", "hmyn", and "hymmn". 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, "hype", "Hyun", "hypo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English ymne, from Old English ymen (reinforced by Old French ymne), from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos). The correct English form is hymn, spelled H-Y-M-N.
Definition
- 1A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hymn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
Etymology
From Middle English ymne, from Old English ymen (reinforced by Old French ymne), from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhymn
- hmyn
- hymmn
- hymnn
- hynm
- hyymn
- yhmn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hymn - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hymn", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).