hullabaloo
/ˌhʌləbəˈluː/
"hullabaloo" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hullabaloo” is uncommon English (frequency #68,298 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,298
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hullabaloo · hullabaloo · English
hullabaloo · rank #68,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,298
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Howson
Nearest frequency peer: Howson (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “hullabaloo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- homecare
homecare
31,707 corpus weight
- horticultur…
horticulturist
31,705 corpus weight
- Howson
Howson
31,704 corpus weight
- hullabaloo
hullabaloo
31,703 corpus weight
- hulled
hulled
31,702 corpus weight
- hunches
hunches
31,700 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hullabaloo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hullabaloo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌhʌləbəˈluː/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hullabaloo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hullabaloo is uncommon English at frequency #68,298 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌhʌləbəˈluː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hullabaloo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Possibly a rhyming reduplication of halloo (used as a greeting or to catch attention; used in hunting to urge on pursuers), hilloa, hullo (variants of “hello”), and similar words. The correct English form is hullabaloo, spelled H-U-L-L-A-B-A-L-O-O.
Definition
- 1A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hullabaloo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
[…]The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension which, by an inevitable association of ideas, he always connected with the maintenance of an Aristocracy.
Etymology
Possibly a rhyming reduplication of halloo (used as a greeting or to catch attention; used in hunting to urge on pursuers), hilloa, hullo (variants of “hello”), and similar words.
This word in other languages
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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