IHR
"ihr" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“IHR” is uncommon English (frequency #56,819 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,819
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acronym of International Health Regulations.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ihr · IHR · English
IHR · rank #56,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,819
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH idyll
Nearest frequency peer: idyll (-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 “IHR”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hyphae
hyphae
43,185 corpus weight
- ident
ident
43,184 corpus weight
- idyll
idyll
43,183 corpus weight
- IHR
IHR
43,182 corpus weight
- ikon
ikon
43,181 corpus weight
- illusionist
illusionist
43,180 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “IHR” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | IHR |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “IHR” in English
Rare enough to double-check
IHR is uncommon English at frequency #56,819 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acronym of International Health Regulations.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for IHR in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is IHR, spelled I-H-R.
Definition
- 1Acronym of International Health Regulations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how IHR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In 2005, the WHO drew up a new version of the International Health Regulations (IHR), the central legal document that all member states are bound by. According to Fidler, the updated IHR, which is in force to this day, is a radical document.
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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