hyp
/ˈhɪp/
"hyp" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hyp” is uncommon English (frequency #97,129 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,129
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hypochondria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hyp · hyp · English
hyp · rank #97,129 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,129
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hydromorphone
Nearest frequency peer: hydromorphone (-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 “hyp”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hurstville
Hurstville
2,877 corpus weight
- hydrogeology
hydrogeology
2,875 corpus weight
- hydrolase
hydrolase
2,874 corpus weight
- hydromorpho…
hydromorphone
2,873 corpus weight
- hyp
hyp
2,872 corpus weight
- hyperspectr…
hyperspectral
2,871 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hyp” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hyp |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #97,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hyp” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hyp is uncommon English at frequency #97,129 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhɪp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hyp, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 hyp, spelled H-Y-P.
Definition
- 1Hypochondria.
- 2Hypnotism.
- 3A hypnotist.
- 4A hypotenuse.
- 5Alternative form of hype (“hypodermic [needle]”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hyp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heaven ſend thou haſt not got the Hypps. / How? Not a Word come from thy lips?
Guess I've got a bad case of the hyps.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).