national anthem
"national-anthem" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“national anthem” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The official song of a nation or sovereign state, generally of a patriotic nature and played at events to celebrate or honor said state.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | national anthem |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “national anthem” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
national anthem is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for national anthem in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is national anthem, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L- -A-N-T-H-E-M.
Definition
- 1The official song of a nation or sovereign state, generally of a patriotic nature and played at events to celebrate or honor said state.
- 2The official song of a constituent state of a country.
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 “national anthem”
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- The one correct English spelling is N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L- -A-N-T-H-E-M - 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.