night hag
/naɪt hæɡ/
"night-hag" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“night hag” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a demon that gives rise to sleep paralysis
Corpus desk
Index EN-night-hag · night hag · English
night hag · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | night hag |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /naɪt hæɡ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “night hag” in English
Rare enough to double-check
night hag is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /naɪt hæɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "a demon that gives rise to sleep paralysis".
No generated misspelling entries exist for night hag in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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: night + hag The correct English form is night hag, spelled N-I-G-H-T- -H-A-G.
Definition
- 1a demon that gives rise to sleep paralysis
Etymology
night + hag
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.