hour
/ˈaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
The verdict
“hour” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,613
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hora.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hour · hour · Spanish
hour · rank #34,613 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,613
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH homólogos
Nearest frequency peer: homólogos (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “hour”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- hipster
hipster
65,391 corpus weight
- hollow
hollow
65,390 corpus weight
- homólogos
homólogos
65,389 corpus weight
- hour
hour
65,388 corpus weight
- hours
hours
65,387 corpus weight
- hua
hua
65,386 corpus weight
What this shows “hour” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | hour |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaʊ.ə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “hour”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around hour (IPA /ˈaʊ.ə(ɹ)/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,613 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for hour, with forms such as "hhour", "horu", and "hourr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hoy", "how", "hoz", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is hour, spelled H-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Hora.
- 2Tiempo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhour
- horu
- hourr
- huor
- ohur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hour - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hour", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).