Little Red Riding Hood
/ˈlɪtl̩ ɹɛd ɹaɪ.dɪŋ hʊd/
"little-red-riding-hood" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Little Red Riding Hood” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A fairy tale about a young girl who walks through the forest to visit her grandmother and encounters the Big Bad Wolf (or another vicious wolf, or werewolf in archaic versions).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Little Red Riding Hood |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɪtl̩ ɹɛd ɹaɪ.dɪŋ hʊd/ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Little Red Riding Hood” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Little Red Riding Hood is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈlɪtl̩ ɹɛd ɹaɪ.dɪŋ hʊd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Little Red Riding Hood, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From little + red + riding hood. The correct English form is Little Red Riding Hood, spelled L-I-T-T-L-E- -R-E-D- -R-I-D-I-N-G- -H-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1A fairy tale about a young girl who walks through the forest to visit her grandmother and encounters the Big Bad Wolf (or another vicious wolf, or werewolf in archaic versions).
- 2The girl who is the protagonist and title character in this story.
Etymology
From little + red + riding hood.
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 “Little Red Riding Hood”
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- The one correct English spelling is L-I-T-T-L-E- -R-E-D- -R-I-D-I-N-G- -H-O-O-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈlɪtl̩ ɹɛd ɹaɪ.dɪŋ hʊd/ (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
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.