hop
/hɒp/
"hop" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hop” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #3,629 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,629
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A short jump.
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 | hop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hɒp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hop” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for hop is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /hɒp/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,629 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
hop doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HR", "HP", "HQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German h… The correct English form is hop, spelled H-O-P.
Definition
- 1A short jump.
- 2A jump on one leg.
- 3A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
- 4A brief period of development or progress.
- 5A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- 6A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
- 7The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
Etymology
From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).
This word in other languages
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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Using “hop”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /hɒp/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “HR” - see the side-by-side comparison. hop vs HR
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.