# hour vs Hu

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### hour
*noun · IPA /aʊə/ · frequency rank #675*
A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).

### Hu
*name · IPA /hu/ · frequency rank #13,362*
A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hour-vs-hu