# Huron

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈhjʊɹɑn/ · frequency rank #23,307

## Definitions
1. A member of the Wyandot people, a Native American group.

## Etymology
From French Huron; Uncertain; possibly from French hure (“boar’s head”) or from a Wyandot word containing the Iroquoian root ronon (“nation”), from Proto-North Iroquoian *-ɹonõʔ.

## Easily confused with
- **hurt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/huron-vs-hurt)
- **hurts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/huron-vs-hurts)
- **hurry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/huron-vs-hurry)
- **hurst** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/huron-vs-hurst)
- **Hutton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/huron-vs-hutton)
- **hon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hon-vs-huron)
- **hun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hun-vs-huron)
- **Hur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hur-vs-huron)
- **hero** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hero-vs-huron)
- **horn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horn-vs-huron)
- **Hugo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hugo-vs-huron)
- **hoon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hoon-vs-huron)
- **Hurd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hurd-vs-huron)
- **hurl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hurl-vs-huron)
- **human** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/human-vs-huron)
- **humor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/humor-vs-huron)
- **heron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heron-vs-huron)
- **Herod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/herod-vs-huron)
- **Hunan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hunan-vs-huron)
- **Horan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/horan-vs-huron)

## Common misspellings (7)
`hhuron`, `hruon`, `huorn`, `hurno`, `huronn`, `hurron`, `uhron`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/huron