hoe
/həʊ/
The verdict
“hoe” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #94,210 among 1,569 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,210
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Azada.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hoe · hoe · Spanish
hoe · rank #94,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,210
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hipotecada
Nearest frequency peer: hipotecada (-2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “hoe”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- herring
herring
5,797 corpus weight
- hincho
hincho
5,796 corpus weight
- hipotecada
hipotecada
5,793 corpus weight
- hoe
hoe
5,791 corpus weight
- holoceno
holoceno
5,788 corpus weight
- huayra
huayra
5,783 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “hoe” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoe |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /həʊ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #94,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “hoe” en español
Rare enough to double-check
hoe is uncommon Spanish at frequency #94,210 among 1,569 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /həʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hoe, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is hoe, spelled H-O-E.
Definition
- 1Azada.
- 2Azadón.
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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