scavenger hunt
/ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)hʌnt/
"scavenger-hunt" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scavenger hunt” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a 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) - A game in which individuals or teams seek to find a number of specific items, or perform tasks, as given in a list.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scavenger hunt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)hʌnt/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scavenger hunt” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
scavenger hunt is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)hʌnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A game in which individuals or teams seek to find a number of specific items, or perform tasks, as given in a list.".
No misspelling variants are generated for scavenger hunt in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From scavenger + hunt. The correct English form is scavenger hunt, spelled S-C-A-V-E-N-G-E-R- -H-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1A game in which individuals or teams seek to find a number of specific items, or perform tasks, as given in a list.
Etymology
From scavenger + hunt.
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 “scavenger hunt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-C-A-V-E-N-G-E-R- -H-U-N-T - 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.