Which to use
“hour” and “HR” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #675
- “hour” frequency rank
- #5,134
- “HR” frequency rank
- 5809
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hour | HR |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes). | Initialism of human resources. |
Where the eye mixes hour and HR
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. hour (/aʊə/) and HR (/eɪt͡ʃ ɑː(ɹ)/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5809, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hour is recorded at frequency rank #675, classified as anoun, pronounced /aʊə/. HR is at rank #5,134, tagged as anoun, pronounced /eɪt͡ʃ ɑː(ɹ)/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 5809, this pair ranks #513,936 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of hour vs HR
Shared letters: hr. Private to "hour": ou. Private to "HR": -.
"hour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "HR" · 2 letters · shape CC
Known mistypes of this pair
- hour ← hhour · horu · hourr · huor · ohur