hourly
/ˈaʊ̯əli/
"hourly" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hourly” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,043. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,043
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Occurring every hour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hourly · hourly · English
hourly · rank #11,043 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,043
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hopeless
Nearest frequency peer: hopeless (-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 “hourly”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hazardous
hazardous
88,961 corpus weight
- hooker
hooker
88,960 corpus weight
- hopeless
hopeless
88,959 corpus weight
- hourly
hourly
88,958 corpus weight
- illustrate
illustrate
88,957 corpus weight
- IMO
IMO
88,956 corpus weight
What this shows “hourly” 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 | hourly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈaʊ̯əli/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hourly”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hourly (IPA /ˈaʊ̯əli/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,043 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hourly, with forms such as "hhourly", "horuly", and "houlry". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "hurl", "hours", "hurry", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hour + -ly. The correct English form is hourly, spelled H-O-U-R-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Occurring every hour.
- 2Unsalaried, paid by the hour; (by extension) blue-collar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hourly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are hourly express buses.
The [four] motors have a continuous rating of 144 h.p. and an hourly output of 180 h.p., giving a total hourly rating of 720 h.p. compared with the six-motored "Arlecchino's" 994 h.p.
Etymology
From hour + -ly.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhourly
- horuly
- houlry
- hourlly
- hourlyy
- hourrly
- houryl
- huorly
- ohurly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hourly - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hourly", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).