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hb

noun, verb

hb is spelled H-B: 2 letters. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hb means “Initialism of homeboy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hb is hbs.

How many letters and syllables are in hb?

Letters2: H-B
In writing2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is hb?

Hb appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 hb?

  • Australia

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

Forms of hb

  • hbs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • hbing participle, present
  • hbed participle, past

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

What does hb mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of homeboy.

adjective

as HB
  1. 1

    Initialism of hard black (describing a pencil that makes lighter marks than a grade B, but darker marks than a grade H pencil).

noun

as HB
  1. 1

    Initialism of horizontal branch.

  2. 2

    slangInitialism of hot babe, someone pickup artists try to seduce. (Usually followed by a number in the 1-10 scale of physical beauty, e.g. HB10.)

  3. 3

    Initialism of home birth.

  4. 4

    Initialism of house bill (“a bill proposed in or passed by a legislative house”) (Compare SB.)

    HB2

  5. 5

    Initialism of halfback.

  6. 6

    Initialism of horizontal bar.

  7. 7

    Initialism of high bar.

  8. 8

    Clipping of HB pencil.

phrase

as HB
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of happy birthday.

verb

as HB
  1. 1

    Initialism of hard-block.

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of HB (“hard-block”).

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

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