hid
/hɪd/
"hid" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hid” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #9,760 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #9,760
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past of hide
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 | hid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /hɪd/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hid” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for hid is 3 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /hɪd/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,760 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hid, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ho", "HR", "HP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is hid, spelled H-I-D.
Definition
- 1simple past of hide
- 2past participle of hide
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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Using “hid”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-I-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /hɪd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ho” - see the side-by-side comparison. hid vs ho
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.