without a hitch
"without-a-hitch" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“without a hitch” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a prep_phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of an event or process, without any problems.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | without a hitch |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Prep_phrase |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “without a hitch” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
without a hitch is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aprep_phrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for without a hitch in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is without a hitch, spelled W-I-T-H-O-U-T- -A- -H-I-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Of an event or process, without any problems.
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see without, hitch.
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 “without a hitch”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-I-T-H-O-U-T- -A- -H-I-T-C-H - 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.