hukou
/ˈhuːˌkoʊ/
"hukou" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hukou” is uncommon English (frequency #98,233 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,233
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A household registration record that identifies a person as a local resident.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hukou · hukou · English
hukou · rank #98,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,233
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH horseless
Nearest frequency peer: horseless (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “hukou”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Honoria
Honoria
1,772 corpus weight
- hopefulness
hopefulness
1,771 corpus weight
- horseless
horseless
1,770 corpus weight
- hukou
hukou
1,768 corpus weight
- Huynh
Huynh
1,766 corpus weight
- hypochondria
hypochondria
1,765 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hukou” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hukou |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhuːˌkoʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hukou” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hukou is uncommon English at frequency #98,233 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhuːˌkoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A household registration record that identifies a person as a local resident.".
hukou has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mandarin 戶口／户口 (hùkǒu). The correct English form is hukou, spelled H-U-K-O-U.
Definition
- 1A household registration record that identifies a person as a local resident.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hukou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But now, a new awareness of the issue is raising questions about the status of women in China, as well as other rights issues like the hukou, or residency permit, a central tool of population control passed down from the Maoist era that restricts movement by linking people to the towns of their birth.
Etymology
From Mandarin 戶口／户口 (hùkǒu).
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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