Honduras
/hɒnˈdjʊə.ɹəs/
"honduras" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Honduras” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,990. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,990
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Honduras. Capital: Tegucigalpa.
Corpus desk
Index EN-honduras · Honduras · English
Honduras · rank #12,990 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,990
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hereby
Nearest frequency peer: hereby (-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 “Honduras”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hale
hale
87,015 corpus weight
- Hercules
Hercules
87,013 corpus weight
- hereby
hereby
87,012 corpus weight
- Honduras
Honduras
87,011 corpus weight
- hotter
hotter
87,010 corpus weight
- humorous
humorous
87,009 corpus weight
What this shows “Honduras” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Honduras |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /hɒnˈdjʊə.ɹəs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Honduras”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Honduras (IPA /hɒnˈdjʊə.ɹəs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,990 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Honduras. Capital: Tegucigalpa.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Honduras, with forms such as "hhonduras", "hnoduras", and "hodnuras". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish honduras (“depths”, referring to the deep waters off the northern coast). It may also come from the alleged Columbus quote, "Gracias a Dios que hemos salido de esas honduras" ("Thank god we have departed from those depths"), said durin… The correct English form is Honduras, spelled H-O-N-D-U-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Honduras. Capital: Tegucigalpa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Honduras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, ICE agents arrested Walter Valladares, a 53-year-old undocumented immigrant from Honduras, according to family members who spoke with CNN.
Three children who are US citizens, including a 4-year-old receiving treatment for metastatic cancer, were taken to Honduras with their mothers, who were deported last week, according to the families’ attorneys and civil rights and immigration advocacy organizations.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish honduras (“depths”, referring to the deep waters off the northern coast). It may also come from the alleged Columbus quote, "Gracias a Dios que hemos salido de esas honduras" ("Thank god we have departed from those depths"), said during his fourth and final voyage in 1502.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhonduras
- hnoduras
- hodnuras
- hondduras
- hondruas
- honduars
- hondurass
- hondurras
- hondursa
- honnduras
- honudras
- ohnduras
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Honduras - 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 "Honduras", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).