eh
\e\
The verdict
“eh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,160) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,160
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’admiration, de surprise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eh · eh · French
eh · rank #1,160 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,160
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH cool
Nearest frequency peer: cool (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « eh »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- calme
calme
98,844 corpus weight
- chien
chien
98,843 corpus weight
- cool
cool
98,842 corpus weight
- eh
eh
98,841 corpus weight
- enquête
enquête
98,840 corpus weight
- envoyer
envoyer
98,839 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « eh » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des 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 | eh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \e\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « eh »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eh is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "en", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \e\. Frequency #1,160 among 3,255 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
eh doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "en", "Eu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is eh, spelled E-H.
Definition
- 1D’admiration, de surprise.
- 2Autre graphie pour « hé ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh ! Qui aurait pu croire cela ?
Eh ! Tu me fais mal !
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.