hon
[ɔ̃]
The verdict
“hon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,388) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,388
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grito de descontento.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hon · hon · Spanish
hon · rank #31,388 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,388
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH homofóbico
Nearest frequency peer: homofóbico (-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 “hon”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- histoire
histoire
68,616 corpus weight
- homofóbico
homofóbico
68,614 corpus weight
- hon
hon
68,613 corpus weight
- imposiciones
imposiciones
68,611 corpus weight
- incitación
incitación
68,610 corpus weight
- individuali…
individualista
68,609 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “hon” 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 | hon |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ɔ̃] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “hon”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hon is neighbouring look-alikes ("hoy", "hot", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ɔ̃]. Frequency #31,388 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Grito de descontento.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hon in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hoy", "hot", "hop", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 hon, spelled H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Grito de descontento.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).