hoorah
/ˈhu.ɹɑː/
"hoorah" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hoorah” is uncommon English (frequency #83,351 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,351
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of hurrah.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hoorah · hoorah · English
hoorah · rank #83,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,351
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hooman
Nearest frequency peer: Hooman (-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 “hoorah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- homebuilding
homebuilding
16,654 corpus weight
- hoochie
hoochie
16,653 corpus weight
- hoofed
hoofed
16,652 corpus weight
- Hooman
Hooman
16,651 corpus weight
- hoorah
hoorah
16,650 corpus weight
- Hosokawa
Hosokawa
16,648 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hoorah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoorah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈhu.ɹɑː/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hoorah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hoorah is uncommon English at frequency #83,351 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /ˈhu.ɹɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of hurrah.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hoorah, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is hoorah, spelled H-O-O-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of hurrah.
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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