# hash

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈhæʃ/ · frequency rank #12,436

## Definitions
1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
2. A confused mess.
3. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
4. The result generated by a hash function.
5. One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
6. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
7. A hash run.
8. A stupid fellow.

## Etymology
From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

## Easily confused with
- **HH** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hh)
- **his** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-his)
- **hat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hat)
- **huh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-huh)
- **hes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hes)
- **hay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hay)
- **heh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-heh)
- **HMS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hms)
- **haw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-haw)
- **HHS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hhs)
- **Hsu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hsu)
- **hos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hos)
- **hoh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hoh)
- **hav** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hav)
- **hse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hse)
- **Hus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hus)
- **HTS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hts)
- **HSA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hsa)
- **hhh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hhh)
- **Hsi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hsi)

## Common misspellings (5)
`ahsh`, `hahs`, `hashh`, `hassh`, `hhash`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/hash