Hsi
"hsi" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hsi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,104) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,104
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hsi · Hsi · English
Hsi · rank #47,104 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,104
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hued
Nearest frequency peer: hued (+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 “Hsi”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Hezekiah
Hezekiah
52,903 corpus weight
- HMAS
HMAS
52,902 corpus weight
- Hsi
Hsi
52,897 corpus weight
- hued
hued
52,896 corpus weight
- humbug
humbug
52,895 corpus weight
- hydrological
hydrological
52,894 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Hsi” 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 | Hsi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Hsi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Hsi is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hu", "hv", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #47,104 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Gloss: "A surname.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hsi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hu", "hv", "huh", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mandarin 習 /习 (Xí), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi². The correct English form is Hsi, spelled H-S-I.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hsi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An excellent example of the Chinese colporteur's zeal and capacity is afforded by Hsi Fuh Ts’ing, who lives at Hwangchow in the province of Hupeh.
In the course of this ‘Second Anti-Rightist Campaign’ (Erh-tz’u fan-yu), Ch’en Yün’s authority was considerably restricted, and the Vice-Premier and Secretary General of the State Council, Hsi Chung-hsün (member of the CC), was dismissed.
Etymology
From Mandarin 習 /习 (Xí), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi².
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).