hones
/hoʊnz/
"hones" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hones” is uncommon English (frequency #69,931 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,931
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of hone
Corpus desk
Index EN-hones · hones · English
hones · rank #69,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,931
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Homan
Nearest frequency peer: Homan (-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 “hones”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- HMC
HMC
30,072 corpus weight
- Homan
Homan
30,071 corpus weight
- hones
hones
30,070 corpus weight
- honeyed
honeyed
30,069 corpus weight
- horrendously
horrendously
30,067 corpus weight
- Horrocks
Horrocks
30,066 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hones” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hones |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hoʊnz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hones” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hones is uncommon English at frequency #69,931 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /hoʊnz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of hone".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hones in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hones, spelled H-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of hone
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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