han
/hæn/
"han" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“han” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,925) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,925
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural simple present of have
Corpus desk
Index EN-han · han · English
han · rank #7,925 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,925
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH halt
Nearest frequency peer: halt (-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 “han”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- ginger
ginger
92,080 corpus weight
- guild
guild
92,078 corpus weight
- halt
halt
92,077 corpus weight
- han
han
92,076 corpus weight
- Henderson
Henderson
92,075 corpus weight
- IBM
IBM
92,074 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “han” 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 | han |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /hæn/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “han”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for han is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "hi", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /hæn/. Frequency #7,925 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Gloss: "plural simple present of have".
No generated misspelling entries exist for han in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English han, contraction of haven. The correct English form is han, spelled H-A-N.
Definition
- 1plural simple present of have
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how han appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They han the fleece, and eke the flesh;
Since that ye han had my virginitie,
Etymology
From Middle English han, contraction of haven.
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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