hachette
^((h aspiré))\a.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“hachette” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,949
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite hache.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hachette · hachette · French
hachette · rank #14,949 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,949
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hospitaliers
Nearest frequency peer: hospitaliers (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « hachette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grandissant
grandissant
85,055 corpus weight
- gratitude
gratitude
85,054 corpus weight
- hachette
hachette
85,052 corpus weight
- hospitaliers
hospitaliers
85,051 corpus weight
- humanisme
humanisme
85,050 corpus weight
- hôtellerie
hôtellerie
85,049 corpus weight
What this shows « hachette » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | hachette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hachette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around hachette (IPA ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,949 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for hachette, with forms such as "ahchette", "hacchette", and "hacehtte". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hachée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 hachette, spelled H-A-C-H-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite hache.
- 2Espèce d’insecte lépidoptère (papillon) nocturne de la famille des saturnidés (Saturnidae) dont le dos des ailes est de couleur brun-sable avec une ocelle sur chaque aile.
- 3Plante fourragère, genre Securigera.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hachette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En outre, le lieutenant et le sous-officier portaient la hachette et le couteau à neige, qui n’abandonnent jamais un voyageur des régions polaires.
Les enquêteurs ont fini par retrouver à Hong Kong la trace de ce contrôleur aérien français soupçonné d’avoir assassiné à la hachette l’un de ses collègues au sein même de la tour de contrôle de l’aéroport Bâle-Mulhouse-Fribourg, en avril 2011, avant d’organiser sa disparition en mettant la police sur une série de fausse piste.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahchette
- hacchette
- hacehtte
- hachete
- hachetet
- hachhette
- hachtete
- hahcette
- hcahette
- hhachette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hachette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).