older than the hills
"older-than-the-hills" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“older than the hills” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of old as the hills.
Corpus desk
Index EN-older-than-the-hills · older than the hills · English
older than the hills · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | older than the hills |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “older than the hills” in English
Rare enough to double-check
older than the hills is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of old as the hills.".
Zero misspellings are on record for older than the hills in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is older than the hills, spelled O-L-D-E-R- -T-H-A-N- -T-H-E- -H-I-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of old as the hills.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how older than the hills appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Love is as old, yea, older than the hills.
In the photograph you looked older than the cliché—older than the hills.
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.