take to the hills
"take-to-the-hills" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“take to the hills” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To flee or vanish; to run away.
Corpus desk
Index EN-take-to-the-hills · take to the hills · English
take to the hills · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | take to the hills |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “take to the hills” in English
Rare enough to double-check
take to the hills is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To flee or vanish; to run away.".
take to the hills has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is take to the hills, spelled T-A-K-E- -T-O- -T-H-E- -H-I-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1To flee or vanish; to run away.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how take to the hills appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He often took to the hills when his mother-in-law was in town.
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.