han
^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃\
The verdict
“han” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,553) as an onomatopoeia. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,553
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclamation exprimant le cri sourd et guttural d’un homme fournissant un effort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-han · han · French
han · rank #8,553 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,553
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH géniale
Nearest frequency peer: géniale (-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 « han »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- guerriers
guerriers
91,451 corpus weight
- gâteaux
gâteaux
91,450 corpus weight
- géniale
géniale
91,449 corpus weight
- han
han
91,448 corpus weight
- hip
hip
91,447 corpus weight
- honneurs
honneurs
91,446 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « han » 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 | han |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « han »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for han is neighbouring look-alikes ("He", "HD", …), not just typos; it is anonomatopoeia pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃\. Frequency #8,553 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for han in our index, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 han, spelled H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Exclamation exprimant le cri sourd et guttural d’un homme fournissant un effort.
- 2Cri du bûcheron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how han appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Allez han… pfff… han… gnii… pfou… je vais y arriver… penser à l’arrivée…
À présent que j’en suis à cinq jours bien comptés, de me la remémorer, j’ai les jambes cassées ; il faut que je m’assoie. Han ! laissez-moi souffler…
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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