# had vs HH

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### had
*verb · IPA /hæd/ · frequency rank #54*
simple past and past participle of have

### HH
*name · frequency rank #23,299*
Initialism of Hansestadt Hamburg, the German city of Hamburg; used on licence plates and informally in other contexts.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/had-vs-hh