shorthair
"shorthair" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shorthair” is uncommon English (frequency #88,850 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,850
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, a slender body and a large head.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shorthair · shorthair · English
shorthair · rank #88,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,850
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shipmate
Nearest frequency peer: shipmate (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “shorthair”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sheerness
sheerness
11,157 corpus weight
- Sherburne
Sherburne
11,156 corpus weight
- Sherrington
Sherrington
11,155 corpus weight
- shipmate
shipmate
11,152 corpus weight
- shorthair
shorthair
11,151 corpus weight
- silvered
silvered
11,146 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shorthair” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shorthair |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shorthair” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shorthair is uncommon English at frequency #88,850 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, a slender body and a large head.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shorthair in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From short + hair. The correct English form is shorthair, spelled S-H-O-R-T-H-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, a slender body and a large head.
Etymology
From short + hair.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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