Hooghly
"hooghly" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hooghly” is uncommon English (frequency #99,373 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,373
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A river in West Bengal forming the westernmost branch of the Ganges.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hooghly · Hooghly · English
Hooghly · rank #99,373 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,373
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hoodwink
Nearest frequency peer: hoodwink (-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 “Hooghly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- homoeopathic
homoeopathic
632 corpus weight
- hoodwink
hoodwink
629 corpus weight
- Hooghly
Hooghly
628 corpus weight
- hookahs
hookahs
627 corpus weight
- Houle
Houle
625 corpus weight
- Howth
Howth
623 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Hooghly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hooghly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Hooghly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Hooghly is uncommon English at frequency #99,373 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Hooghly, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicisation of Bengali হুগলি (hugoli). The correct English form is Hooghly, spelled H-O-O-G-H-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A river in West Bengal forming the westernmost branch of the Ganges.
- 2A city on the Hooghly River, now known officially as Hugli-Chuchura.
- 3A district of West Bengal, India which contains the city of Hooghly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hooghly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Uſuwrper, called upon by the univerſal clamour of the people, and diſtreſſes of his country, once more quitted [...] and of all the country the Weſtern ſhore of the Hougley river from Ballaſore, to within a few miles Tanna's Fort, near the Engliſh ſettlement of Fort William.
Etymology
Anglicisation of Bengali হুগলি (hugoli).
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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