Honolulu
/ˌhoʊ.nəˈluː.luː/
"honolulu" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Honolulu” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,963. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,963
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A port on Oahu Island, the capital city of the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.
Corpus desk
Index EN-honolulu · Honolulu · English
Honolulu · rank #14,963 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,963
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH homophobic
Nearest frequency peer: homophobic (-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 “Honolulu”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hitter
hitter
85,041 corpus weight
- hive
hive
85,040 corpus weight
- homophobic
homophobic
85,039 corpus weight
- Honolulu
Honolulu
85,038 corpus weight
- humid
humid
85,037 corpus weight
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad
85,036 corpus weight
What this shows “Honolulu” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Honolulu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌhoʊ.nəˈluː.luː/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Honolulu”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Honolulu (IPA /ˌhoʊ.nəˈluː.luː/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,963 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A port on Oahu Island, the capital city of the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Honolulu, with forms such as "hhonolulu", "hnoolulu", and "honloulu". 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hawaiian Honolulu, from hono (“bay, harbor” – cognate with Māori whanga) + lulu (“shelter” – cognate with Māori ruru); see also toponym Whangaruru in North Island, New Zealand. The correct English form is Honolulu, spelled H-O-N-O-L-U-L-U.
Definition
- 1A port on Oahu Island, the capital city of the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.
Etymology
From Hawaiian Honolulu, from hono (“bay, harbor” – cognate with Māori whanga) + lulu (“shelter” – cognate with Māori ruru); see also toponym Whangaruru in North Island, New Zealand.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhonolulu
- hnoolulu
- honloulu
- honnolulu
- honollulu
- honolluu
- honolullu
- honoluul
- honoullu
- hoonlulu
- ohnolulu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Honolulu - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).