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hoa

/hoʊ/obsolete

hoa is spelled H-O-A: 3 letters. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hoa means “A minority ethnic group of Vietnam, regarded as Chinese” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hoa?

Letters3: H-O-A
In writing1.1 times per million words; the 27,462nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is hoa?

Hoa appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd 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 hoa?

  • UK /həʊ/
  • US /hoʊ/

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

Words people confuse with hoa

Sounds like: hoe (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with hoa?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hoa from its last stressed vowel (/oʊ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does hoa mean?

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

noun

as Hoa
  1. 1

    A minority ethnic group of Vietnam, regarded as Chinese.

noun

as HOA
  1. 1

    Initialism of homeowner association.

  2. 2

    Initialism of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy.

interjection

  1. 1

    obsoleteho; hey; a call for attention

    Hoa, who is within here?

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

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