hurray
/həˈɹeɪ/
"hurray" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hurray” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,677. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,677
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of hooray.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hurray · hurray · English
hurray · rank #33,677 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,677
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH humanistic
Nearest frequency peer: humanistic (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “hurray”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hissing
hissing
66,327 corpus weight
- hitched
hitched
66,326 corpus weight
- humanistic
humanistic
66,325 corpus weight
- hurray
hurray
66,324 corpus weight
- iconography
iconography
66,323 corpus weight
- Igbo
Igbo
66,322 corpus weight
What this shows “hurray” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | hurray |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /həˈɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hurray”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hurray (IPA /həˈɹeɪ/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #33,677 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative form of hooray.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hurray, with forms such as "hhurray", "hruray", and "hurary". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hurry", "harry", "hurley", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is hurray, spelled H-U-R-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of hooray.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhurray
- hruray
- hurary
- huray
- hurrayy
- hurrya
- uhrray
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hurray - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hurray", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).