hp
/eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/noun
hp is spelled H-P: 2 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hp means “Abbreviation of horsepower (unit of power)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in hp?
| Letters | 2: H-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is hp?
Hp appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce hp?
- /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/
Hp has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-ca-HP.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does hp mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of horsepower (unit of power).
noun
- 1
Initialism of hire purchase.
Everything is practical, sensible, reasonably priced and available on HP.
- 2
Initialism of horsepower.
- 3
Initialism of hit points / health points.
- 4
Initialism of higher power.
- 5
Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
- 6
Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
- 7
Initialism of hydrogen peroxide.
- 8
Initialism of handphone.
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of haptoglobin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hp in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense horsepower:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hp come from?
Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).