hoh
"hoh" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hoh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,846) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,846
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of ho.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hoh · hoh · English
hoh · rank #32,846 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,846
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hinterland
Nearest frequency peer: hinterland (-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 “hoh”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Highlander
Highlander
67,158 corpus weight
- hilt
hilt
67,157 corpus weight
- hinterland
hinterland
67,156 corpus weight
- hoh
hoh
67,155 corpus weight
- Holliday
Holliday
67,154 corpus weight
- homely
homely
67,153 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “hoh” 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 | hoh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “hoh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hoh is neighbouring look-alikes ("HR", "HP", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #32,846 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Alternative form of ho.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hoh in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HR", "HP", "HQ", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 hoh, spelled H-O-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of ho.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hoh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).