HDB
"hdb" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“HDB” is uncommon English (frequency #77,751 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,751
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Housing and Development Board.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hdb · HDB · English
HDB · rank #77,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,751
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH headmasters
Nearest frequency peer: headmasters (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “HDB”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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22,255 corpus weight
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22,254 corpus weight
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22,253 corpus weight
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22,250 corpus weight
- headmasters
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22,249 corpus weight
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22,248 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “HDB” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | HDB |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #77,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “HDB” in English
Rare enough to double-check
HDB is uncommon English at frequency #77,751 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of Housing and Development Board.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for HDB, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is HDB, spelled H-D-B.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Housing and Development Board.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how HDB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
From that month on, couples where at least one partner is a full-time student or NS Man can opt to defer their income assessment for an HDB loan.
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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