hid
/hɪd/
"hid" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hid” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,760) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,760
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of hide
Corpus desk
Index EN-hid · hid · English
hid · rank #9,760 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,760
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hesitate
Nearest frequency peer: hesitate (-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 “hid”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- harmless
harmless
90,244 corpus weight
- hesitate
hesitate
90,242 corpus weight
- hid
hid
90,241 corpus weight
- hips
hips
90,240 corpus weight
- hopeful
hopeful
90,239 corpus weight
- horny
horny
90,238 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “hid” 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 | 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) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “hid”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hid is neighbouring look-alikes ("ho", "HR", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /hɪd/. Frequency #9,760 among 2,646 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Foꝛ nothing is ſecret, that ſhall not be made manifeſt: neither any thing hid, that ſhall not be knowen, and come abꝛoad.
Oh! here it is. I was sure it could not be far off; but I had put my huswife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid, but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table.
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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