Which to use
“hour” and “hui” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #675
- “hour” frequency rank
- #22,115
- “hui” frequency rank
- 22790
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hour | hui |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes). | A Māori social gathering or assembly. |
Where the eye mixes hour and hui
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. hour (/aʊə/) and hui (/ˈhʉː.iː/) 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22790, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hour is recorded at frequency rank #675, classified as anoun, pronounced /aʊə/. hui is at rank #22,115, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈhʉː.iː/.
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 22790, this pair ranks #413,998 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of hour vs hui
Shared letters: hu. Private to "hour": or. Private to "hui": i.
"hour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "hui" · 3 letters · shape CVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- hour ← hhour · horu · hourr · huor · ohur