HusvshutsWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Hus is a name, huts is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Hus” is a name and “huts” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#42,702
“Hus” frequency rank
#20,385
“huts” frequency rank
63087
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Hus huts
Definition A surname from Czech, notably borne by Jan Hus, a Czech religious reformer. plural of hut

Letter map: Hus vs huts

Shared letters muted; letters that set Hus and huts apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch
Hus
4 ch
huts

Role in the sentence - Hus and huts

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Hus is aname and hutsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63087, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Hus is recorded at frequency rank #42,702, classified as aname. huts is at rank #20,385, tagged as anoun, pronounced /hʌts/.

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 63087, this pair ranks #84,958 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Hus vs huts

Shared letters: hsu. Private to "Hus": -. Private to "huts": t.

"Hus" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "huts" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hutshhuts · hust · hutss · hutts · uhts

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Hus" and "huts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Hus" is a name and "huts" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Hus" or "huts" show up more?
"huts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,385 in our English list, against #42,702 for "Hus". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Hus" and "huts".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Hus" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "huts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #84,958 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Hus" and "huts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "humps vs Hus". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #84,958 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list