hos
"hos" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,601) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,601
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of ho
Corpus desk
Index EN-hos · hos · English
hos · rank #31,601 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,601
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Homme
Nearest frequency peer: Homme (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “hos”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- homesick
homesick
68,402 corpus weight
- Homme
Homme
68,401 corpus weight
- hos
hos
68,400 corpus weight
- hotly
hotly
68,399 corpus weight
- Huber
Huber
68,398 corpus weight
- humanly
humanly
68,397 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “hos” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | hos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “hos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hos is neighbouring look-alikes ("HR", "HP", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #31,601 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Gloss: "plural of ho".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hos, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hos, spelled H-O-S.
Definition
- 1plural of ho
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
talkin’, talkin’ ’bout emperor’s children: ivy league pimps and hos.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).