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hab

noun

hab is spelled H-A-B: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hab means “A habitation or habitation facility” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hab is habs or habs..

How many letters and syllables are in hab?

Letters3: H-A-B
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 46,473rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is hab?

Hab appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with hab?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as hab.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: bah.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of hab

  • habs plural
  • habs. plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does hab mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A habitation or habitation facility.

  2. 2

    informalA house.

  3. 3

    informalA habanero.

noun

as Hab
  1. 1

    A member of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.

noun

as HAB
  1. 1

    Initialism of horizontal assembly building.

  2. 2

    Initialism of heavy assembly building.

  3. 3

    Initialism of harmful algal bloom.

  4. 4

    Initialism of high-altitude balloon.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does hab come from?

Clipping of the various words indicated in the definitions.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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