ohana
/əˈhɑːnə/
"ohana" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ohana” is uncommon English (frequency #67,700 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,700
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An extended Hawaiian family unit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ohana |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈhɑːnə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ohana” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ohana is uncommon English at frequency #67,700 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈhɑːnə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An extended Hawaiian family unit.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ohana in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻohana (“family, kin”). The correct English form is ohana, spelled O-H-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1An extended Hawaiian family unit.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻohana (“family, kin”).
This word in other languages
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 “ohana”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-H-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.