hombre
/ˈɒmbɹeɪ/
"hombre" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hombre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,737
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hombre · hombre · English
hombre · rank #40,737 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,737
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hick
Nearest frequency peer: hick (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “hombre”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hesitating
hesitating
59,267 corpus weight
- heuristic
heuristic
59,266 corpus weight
- hick
hick
59,265 corpus weight
- hombre
hombre
59,264 corpus weight
- homology
homology
59,263 corpus weight
- Hopi
Hopi
59,261 corpus weight
What this shows “hombre” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | hombre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hombre”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hombre (IPA /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,737 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hombre, with forms such as "hhombre", "hmobre", and "hobmre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "home", "homer", "homie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi. The correct English form is hombre, spelled H-O-M-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hombre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!
That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhombre
- hmobre
- hobmre
- hombbre
- homber
- hombrre
- hommbre
- homrbe
- ohmbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hombre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hombre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).