IMHO
"imho" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“IMHO” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,613) as a phrase. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,613
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Initialism of in my humble opinion.
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 | IMHO |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “IMHO” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for IMHO is neighbouring look-alikes ("io", "iso", …), not just typos; it is aphrase. Frequency #31,613 among 17,902 “I” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for IMHO, with forms such as "ihmo", "imhho", and "immho". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "io", "iso", "IMO", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is IMHO, spelled I-M-H-O.
Definition
- 1Initialism of in my humble opinion.
- 2Initialism of in my honest opinion.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ihmo,imhho,immho,imoh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of IMHO - 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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Using “IMHO”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-M-H-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “io” - see the side-by-side comparison. IMHO vs io
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Words at a similar English frequency
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.