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You are going for 'hoi', but it really is not a word that would be used independently in English. The term is hoi polloi. It is a borrowing from the Greek and would be transliterated the [hoi] masses [polloi]. It usually refers in some sense to the masses of ordinary people. It is often misused to refer to the elite.
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