hah
/hɑː/
"hah" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,129) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,129
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of ha.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hah · hah · English
hah · rank #14,129 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,129
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Gujarat
Nearest frequency peer: Gujarat (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “hah”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- GPA
GPA
85,875 corpus weight
- Greenwich
Greenwich
85,874 corpus weight
- Gujarat
Gujarat
85,873 corpus weight
- hah
hah
85,872 corpus weight
- Hanson
Hanson
85,871 corpus weight
- haunt
haunt
85,870 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “hah” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /hɑː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “hah”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hah is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "hi", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced /hɑː/. Frequency #14,129 among 2,646 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
hah has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "he", "hi", "HD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hah, spelled H-A-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of ha.
- 2Alternative form of huh.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Shut up, buddy, you've forgotten that I can't run. Now you're the wise guy, hah?
Isaac Sachs makes a 'Hah?' noise. 'You're not Sixsmith's niece?'
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).