son of a whore
"son-of-a-whore" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“son of a whore” 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) - The son of unmarried parents, an illegitimate child, a bastard.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | son of a whore |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “son of a whore” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
son of a whore is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
son of a whore doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 son of a whore, spelled S-O-N- -O-F- -A- -W-H-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1The son of unmarried parents, an illegitimate child, a bastard.
- 2An objectionable person.
- 3Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see son, whore. (the son of a prostitute)
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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 “son of a whore”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-O-N- -O-F- -A- -W-H-O-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.