Medal of Honor
"medal-of-honor" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Medal of Honor” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The highest military award given in the United States.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Medal of Honor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Medal of Honor” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Medal of Honor is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The highest military award given in the United States.".
Medal of Honor has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Medal of Honor, spelled M-E-D-A-L- -O-F- -H-O-N-O-R.
Definition
- 1The highest military award given in the United States.
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 “Medal of Honor”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-E-D-A-L- -O-F- -H-O-N-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.