hours
/ˈaʊəz/
The verdict
“hours” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,614
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de hour.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hours · hours · Spanish
hours · rank #34,614 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,614
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hour
Nearest frequency peer: hour (-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 “hours”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- 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
- identifico
identifico
65,384 corpus weight
What this shows “hours” 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 | hours |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaʊəz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “hours”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hours (IPA /ˈaʊəz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,614 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de hour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hours, with forms such as "hhours", "horus", and "hourrs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "house", "Hoyos", "hora", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is hours, spelled H-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de hour.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhours
- horus
- hourrs
- hourss
- housr
- huors
- ohurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hours - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).