hoyer
"hoyer" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hoyer” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,498. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,498
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A device for transferring a person with serious mobility issues to and from the floor, a mobility device (such as a wheelchair), seating, and a bed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hoyer · hoyer · English
hoyer · rank #37,498 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,498
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Humber
Nearest frequency peer: Humber (+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 “hoyer”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- honorably
honorably
62,506 corpus weight
- Horan
Horan
62,505 corpus weight
- hoyer
hoyer
62,503 corpus weight
- Humber
Humber
62,502 corpus weight
- hurriedly
hurriedly
62,501 corpus weight
- hyping
hyping
62,500 corpus weight
What this shows “hoyer” 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 | hoyer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hoyer”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hoyer, anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,498 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A device for transferring a person with serious mobility issues to and from the floor, a mobility device (such as a wheelchair), seating, and a bed.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hoyer, with forms such as "hhoyer", "hoeyr", and "hoyerr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hye", "Huber", "Hoyle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: After Ted Hoyer, a quadriplegic, who co-invented the device. The correct English form is hoyer, spelled H-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1A device for transferring a person with serious mobility issues to and from the floor, a mobility device (such as a wheelchair), seating, and a bed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hoyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
About five to ten years ago, facilities in Europe started to phase in different types of lift devices that are just now becoming more common in the United States. […] The portable lifting devices manufactured by medical equipment suppliers are U-shaped and contain wheels and a hoyer-style hydraulic or electric lift.
St. Luke’s has two types of hoyers that consist of a fabric sling that is placed underneath the patient’s body and an aluminum lift that picks them up. One of the hoyer lifts is electric, while the other is manual.
Etymology
After Ted Hoyer, a quadriplegic, who co-invented the device.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhoyer
- hoeyr
- hoyerr
- hoyre
- hoyyer
- hyoer
- ohyer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hoyer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).