Which to use
“hour” and “hut” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #675
- “hour” frequency rank
- #9,054
- “hut” frequency rank
- 9729
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hour | hut |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes). | A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials. |
Where the eye mixes hour and hut
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. hour (/aʊə/) and hut (/hʌt/) 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 9729, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hour is recorded at frequency rank #675, classified as anoun, pronounced /aʊə/. hut is at rank #9,054, tagged as anoun, pronounced /hʌt/.
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 9729, this pair ranks #495,901 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of hour vs hut
Shared letters: hu. Private to "hour": or. Private to "hut": t.
"hour" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "hut" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- hour ← hhour · horu · hourr · huor · ohur