Howrah
/haʊɹə/
"howrah" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Howrah” is uncommon English (frequency #71,574 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,574
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A large city and district in West Bengal; a suburb of Kolkata, India.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Howrah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /haʊɹə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Howrah” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Howrah is uncommon English at frequency #71,574 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /haʊɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Howrah in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Bengali হাওড়া (haōṛa). The name would later be used for a property in Tasmania, Australia, which in turn inspired the name of the suburb in Hobart. The correct English form is Howrah, spelled H-O-W-R-A-H.
Definition
- 1A large city and district in West Bengal; a suburb of Kolkata, India.
- 2A suburb of the City of Clarence, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Bengali হাওড়া (haōṛa). The name would later be used for a property in Tasmania, Australia, which in turn inspired the name of the suburb in Hobart.
Synonyms
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 “Howrah”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-W-R-A-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /haʊɹə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.