Ho
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The verdict
“Ho” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,191) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,191
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in Ghana
Corpus desk
Index DE-ho · Ho · German
Ho · rank #7,191 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,191
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH historischer
Nearest frequency peer: historischer (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ho”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Haustür
Haustür
92,813 corpus weight
- hinauf
hinauf
92,812 corpus weight
- historischer
historischer
92,811 corpus weight
- Ho
Ho
92,810 corpus weight
- Hubschrauber
Hubschrauber
92,809 corpus weight
- indes
indes
92,807 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ho” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ho |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ho” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ho is neighbouring look-alikes ("HP", "Hz", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced […]. Frequency #7,191 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Stadt in Ghana".
Ho doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HP", "Hz", "Hof", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ho, spelled H-O.
Definition
- 1Stadt in Ghana
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Entlang der belebten Straße von Accra nach Ho erstreckten sich Wohnhäuser und Geschäfte.“
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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- "Ho" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "HP". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #7,191 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.