hajj
\adʒ\
The verdict
“hajj” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,797) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,797
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pèlerinage musulman aux lieux saints de la ville sainte de La Mecque (Arabie saoudite), un des piliers de l'islam, obligatoire à tout musulman, au moins une fois dans sa vie, s'il en a les moyens f...
Corpus desk
Index FR-hajj · hajj · French
hajj · rank #46,797 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,797
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH guérisseurs
Nearest frequency peer: guérisseurs (-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 « hajj »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gravitation…
gravitationnelle
53,207 corpus weight
- gulli
gulli
53,206 corpus weight
- guérisseurs
guérisseurs
53,205 corpus weight
- hajj
hajj
53,204 corpus weight
- haletante
haletante
53,203 corpus weight
- Hamm
Hamm
53,202 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hajj » 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 | hajj |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \adʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hajj »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hajj is neighbouring look-alikes ("han", "has", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \adʒ\. Frequency #46,797 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for hajj, with forms such as "ahjj", "haj", and "hhajj". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "han", "has", "hal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hajj, spelled H-A-J-J.
Definition
- 1Pèlerinage musulman aux lieux saints de la ville sainte de La Mecque (Arabie saoudite), un des piliers de l'islam, obligatoire à tout musulman, au moins une fois dans sa vie, s'il en a les moyens financiers et physiques.
- 2Pèlerinage chrétien vers la ville sainte qu'est Jérusalem (Israël/Palestine).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hajj appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se rendre à la Mecque au moins une fois dans sa vie afin d’y accomplir le pèlerinage (hajj) constitue le cinquième fondement de l’islam. Selon le Coran, ce rite est directement rattaché à la tradition abrahamique […].
Un des deux éléments centraux du hajj, la purification, se manifeste dans le thème du sacrifice, à la fois don de soi et séparation de soi.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahjj
- haj
- hhajj
- hjaj
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hajj - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).