# hash vs HH

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### hash
*noun · IPA /ˈhæʃ/ · frequency rank #12,436*
Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

### 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: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hh