three hundred
/ˈθɹiː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
"three-hundred" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“three hundred” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The cardinal number occurring after two hundred ninety-nine and before three hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 300.
Corpus desk
Index EN-three-hundred · three hundred · English
three hundred · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | three hundred |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˈθɹiː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “three hundred” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
three hundred is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anumeral, transcribed /ˈθɹiː ˈhʌn.dɹəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The cardinal number occurring after two hundred ninety-nine and before three hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 300.".
three hundred doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is three hundred, spelled T-H-R-E-E- -H-U-N-D-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1The cardinal number occurring after two hundred ninety-nine and before three hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 300.
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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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.