Ho
[ˈo]
The verdict
“Ho” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,268) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,268
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad de Ghana
Corpus desk
Index ES-ho · Ho · Spanish
Ho · rank #8,268 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,268
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH Harvard
Nearest frequency peer: Harvard (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ho”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hall
hall
91,736 corpus weight
- hallar
hallar
91,735 corpus weight
- Harvard
Harvard
91,734 corpus weight
- Ho
Ho
91,733 corpus weight
- ignora
ignora
91,732 corpus weight
- ignorante
ignorante
91,731 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ho” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Ho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈo] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ho” sits in Spanish frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ho is neighbouring look-alikes ("hoy", "hot", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈo]. Frequency #8,268 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Ciudad de Ghana".
Ho doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hoy", "hot", "hop", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Ho, spelled H-O.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de Ghana
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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- "Ho" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "hoy". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #8,268 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.