half
\half\
The verdict
“half” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,750. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,750
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de helfen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-half · half · French
half · rank #20,750 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,750
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH généreusement
Nearest frequency peer: généreusement (-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 « half »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- graphismes
graphismes
79,254 corpus weight
- gratis
gratis
79,253 corpus weight
- généreuseme…
généreusement
79,252 corpus weight
- half
half
79,251 corpus weight
- HBO
HBO
79,250 corpus weight
- heather
heather
79,249 corpus weight
What this shows « half » 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 | half |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \half\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « half »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around half (IPA \half\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,750 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for half, with forms such as "ahlf", "hafl", and "halff". 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, "HF", "han", "has", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is half, spelled H-A-L-F.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de helfen.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de helfen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahlf
- hafl
- halff
- hallf
- hhalf
- hlaf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of half - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).