hooray
/həˈɹeɪ/
"hooray" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hooray” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,403
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used to express approval, joy or victory.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hooray · hooray · English
hooray · rank #22,403 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,403
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH homeowner
Nearest frequency peer: homeowner (-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 “hooray”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- heartache
heartache
77,601 corpus weight
- Hertfordshi…
Hertfordshire
77,600 corpus weight
- homeowner
homeowner
77,599 corpus weight
- hooray
hooray
77,598 corpus weight
- huskies
huskies
77,597 corpus weight
- hypotheses
hypotheses
77,596 corpus weight
What this shows “hooray” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hooray |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /həˈɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hooray”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hooray (IPA /həˈɹeɪ/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #22,403 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Used to express approval, joy or victory.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hooray, with forms such as "hhooray", "hooary", and "hoorayy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "hora", "horny", "Horan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unknown, first attested in the late 17th c. Possible etymologies: * Alteration of huzzah. This is however questionable. * From hurra in German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, húrra in Icelandic, hoera in Dutch. The correct English form is hooray, spelled H-O-O-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Used to express approval, joy or victory.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hooray appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lizzie has broken a world record, and she is now an Olympic medallist! – Hooray!
Etymology
Unknown, first attested in the late 17th c. Possible etymologies: * Alteration of huzzah. This is however questionable. * From hurra in German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, húrra in Icelandic, hoera in Dutch.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhooray
- hooary
- hoorayy
- hoorray
- hoorya
- horay
- horoay
- ohoray
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hooray - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).