Honolulu
[honoˈluːlu]
The verdict
“Honolulu” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,975. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,975
- frequency rank, German
- 59,066
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - auf der Insel Oʻahu gelegene Hauptstadt des US-Bundesstaats Hawaii
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Honolulu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [honoˈluːlu] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Honolulu” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Honolulu (IPA [honoˈluːlu]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,975 among 59,066 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "auf der Insel Oʻahu gelegene Hauptstadt des US-Bundesstaats Hawaii".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Honolulu, with forms such as "hhonolulu", "hnoolulu", and "honloulu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Honolulu, spelled H-O-N-O-L-U-L-U.
Definition
- 1auf der Insel Oʻahu gelegene Hauptstadt des US-Bundesstaats Hawaii
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhonolulu,hnoolulu,honloulu,honnolulu,honollulu,honolluu,honolullu,honoluul,honoullu,hoonlulu,ohnolulu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Honolulu - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “Honolulu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-O-N-O-L-U-L-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [honoˈluːlu] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.