hao
[ˈao]
The verdict
“hao” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,863) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,863
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se usaba para llamar a uno que estuviese distante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hao · hao · Spanish
hao · rank #40,863 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,863
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH herbicidas
Nearest frequency peer: herbicidas (+1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “hao”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- guardameta
guardameta
59,143 corpus weight
- Haedo
Haedo
59,140 corpus weight
- hao
hao
59,138 corpus weight
- herbicidas
herbicidas
59,137 corpus weight
- homicidas
homicidas
59,135 corpus weight
- horizontalm…
horizontalmente
59,133 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “hao” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | hao |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈao] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “hao”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hao is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "Ho", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈao]. Frequency #40,863 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Se usaba para llamar a uno que estuviese distante.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hao in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "he", "Ho", "hi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is hao, spelled H-A-O.
Definition
- 1Se usaba para llamar a uno que estuviese distante.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).