hae
\hae\
The verdict
“hae” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,121) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,121
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kava.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hae · hae · French
hae · rank #49,121 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,121
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hash
Nearest frequency peer: hash (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hae”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gulliver
gulliver
50,883 corpus weight
- gériatrie
gériatrie
50,882 corpus weight
- hae
hae
50,880 corpus weight
- hash
hash
50,879 corpus weight
- Hatem
Hatem
50,878 corpus weight
- haters
haters
50,877 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hae” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | hae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hae\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “hae” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hae is neighbouring look-alikes ("He", "HD", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \hae\. Frequency #49,121 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Kava.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hae, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "He", "HD", "hi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hae, spelled H-A-E.
Definition
- 1Kava.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "hae" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "He". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #49,121 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.