hopi

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The English entry for Hopi is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈhəʊ.pi/. Corpus data places it at rank #40,740 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A member of a particular tribe of North American natives.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Hopi, with forms such as "hhopi", "hoip", and "hoppi". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HP", "how", "hot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Hopi hopi (“Hopi, good in every respect, be wise or knowing”) (as in Hopituu sinom "Hopi people"). Popularized by J. Walter Fewkes as a replacement for the previously used and offensive name Moqui which sounds like Hopi mooki dies, be dead. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Hopi, spelled H-O-P-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.