English homophones
hooray/hurray
"hooray" (#22,403 written frequency) beats "hurray" (#33,677) in this 2-word /həˈɹeɪ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /həˈɹeɪ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "hooray" leads at #22,403, with "hurray" trailing at #33,677.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "hooray" is 6 letters, "hurray" is 6; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across hooray, hurray: ahry. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
hooray
6 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVVCVV
Inventory ahory · private o
hurray
6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVV
Inventory ahruy · private u
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "hooray" when you mean: Used to express approval, joy or victory.
- Write "hurray" when you mean: Alternative form of hooray.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
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- "hooray" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #22,403 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: holy · wholly. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "hooray, hurray" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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