Hai
\haɪ̯\
The verdict
“Hai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,196) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,196
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Requin, squale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hai · Hai · French
Hai · rank #30,196 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,196
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hayden
Nearest frequency peer: Hayden (+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 « Hai »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- grincer
grincer
69,810 corpus weight
- grove
grove
69,809 corpus weight
- géologue
géologue
69,807 corpus weight
- Hai
Hai
69,805 corpus weight
- Hayden
Hayden
69,804 corpus weight
- historiogra…
historiographie
69,801 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Hai » 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 | Hai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \haɪ̯\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Hai »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Hai is neighbouring look-alikes ("He", "HD", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \haɪ̯\. Frequency #30,196 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Requin, squale.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Hai, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Hai, spelled H-A-I.
Definition
- 1Requin, squale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Hai hat vor den Bahamas eine Kreuzfahrtpassagierin angegriffen und getötet. Die 58-Jährige aus dem US-Staat Pennsylvania schnorchelte am Dienstag an einer bei Wassersportlern beliebten Stelle (...)
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).