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hall

UK /hɔːl/noun

hall is spelled H-A-L-L: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 74 times per million words in written English, the 1,427th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hall means “A corridor; a hallway” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hall is halls.

How many letters and syllables are in hall?

Letters4: H-A-L-L
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing74 times per million words; the 1,427th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is hall?

Hall appears 74 times per million words in written English, the 1,427th 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).

How do you pronounce hall?

  • UK /hɔːl/
  • British /hoːl/
  • /hɔl/

Hall has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-hall.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with hall

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

hall vs haul0 B

Sounds like: haul (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with hall?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hall from its last stressed vowel (/ɔl/, British pronunciation):

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 hall

  • halls plural

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

What does hall mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A corridor; a hallway.

    The drinking fountain was out in the hall.

  2. 2

    A large meeting room.

    The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.

  3. 3

    A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

    The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.

  4. 4

    A building providing student accommodation at a university.

    The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.

  5. 5

    The principal room of a secular medieval building.

  6. 6

    obsoleteCleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.

  7. 7

    A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.

    a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall

  8. 8

    IndiaA living room.

noun

as Hall
  1. 1

    UKHall class, a class of steam locomotive used on the GWR.

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

How do you abbreviate hall?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of hall: BHK.

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

Hall in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcouloir, corridor (corridor or a hallway), salle, salon, hall (large meeting room), manoir (manor house)
GermanFlur, Gang, Korridor, Diele (corridor or a hallway), Halle, Saal (large meeting room)
Portuguesecorredor (corridor or a hallway), salão (large meeting room), saguão (principal room of a secular medieval building)
Spanishpasillo, hall (hol), jol, antesala, zaguán (corridor or a hallway), salón (large meeting room)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does hall come from?

Inherited from Middle English halle (“hall”), from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house, palace, temple, law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).

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

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