Hoppe
"hoppe" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hoppe” is uncommon English (frequency #66,729 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,729
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hoppe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hoppe” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hoppe is uncommon English at frequency #66,729 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Hoppe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a Dutch and German surname, spelling variant of Hopp. * Also as a German surname, nickname from hoppen (“to hop”); see hüpfen. * As a Danish surname, from the German surname Hopf, as well as Danish hoppe (“mare, horse”). * As an English surname, spelli… The correct English form is Hoppe, spelled H-O-P-P-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
* As a Dutch and German surname, spelling variant of Hopp. * Also as a German surname, nickname from hoppen (“to hop”); see hüpfen. * As a Danish surname, from the German surname Hopf, as well as Danish hoppe (“mare, horse”). * As an English surname, spelling variant of Hopper.
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 “Hoppe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-P-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.