Hogue
"hogue" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hogue” is uncommon English (frequency #56,179 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,179
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hogue · Hogue · English
Hogue · rank #56,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,179
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH honeys
Nearest frequency peer: honeys (+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 “Hogue”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hikari
Hikari
43,827 corpus weight
- hitches
hitches
43,824 corpus weight
- Hogue
Hogue
43,822 corpus weight
- honeys
honeys
43,821 corpus weight
- hoots
hoots
43,820 corpus weight
- Hotchkiss
Hotchkiss
43,819 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Hogue” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hogue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Hogue” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Hogue is uncommon English at frequency #56,179 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hogue, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Habitational surname borrowed from French Hogue. The correct English form is Hogue, spelled H-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
Habitational surname borrowed from French Hogue.
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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