hullo
/hʌˈləʊ/
"hullo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hullo” is uncommon English (frequency #89,470 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,470
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of hello (Greeting.)
Corpus desk
Index EN-hullo · hullo · English
hullo · rank #89,470 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,470
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hostname
Nearest frequency peer: hostname (-3 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 “hullo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hominin
hominin
10,539 corpus weight
- Honiton
Honiton
10,538 corpus weight
- hootenanny
hootenanny
10,537 corpus weight
- hostname
hostname
10,534 corpus weight
- hullo
hullo
10,531 corpus weight
- IIHF
IIHF
10,524 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hullo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hullo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /hʌˈləʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hullo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hullo is uncommon English at frequency #89,470 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /hʌˈləʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hullo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hullo, spelled H-U-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of hello (Greeting.)
- 2Alternative form of hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hullo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There he is, now. Bang went the front door open and shut. Harry shouted: “Hullo, you people. Down in five minutes.”
“Mr Wooster?” “Oh, hullo, Lady Wickham.” [...] “Hullo, Bobbie,” I said. “Hullo, Bertie,” she said. “Hullo, Upjohn,” I said. The correct response to this would have been “Hullo, Wooster”, but he blew up in his lines and merely made a noise like a wolf with its big toe caught in a trap. [...] But as I approached the [telephone] and unhooked the thing you un…
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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