Hand
\ˈhant\
The verdict
“Hand” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,154. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,154
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Main.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hand · Hand · French
Hand · rank #15,154 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,154
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH gun
Nearest frequency peer: gun (-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 « Hand »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- glacier
glacier
84,850 corpus weight
- gun
gun
84,848 corpus weight
- Hand
Hand
84,847 corpus weight
- hardy
hardy
84,846 corpus weight
- help
help
84,845 corpus weight
- honoraire
honoraire
84,844 corpus weight
What this shows « Hand » 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 | Hand |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhant\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hand »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Hand (IPA \ˈhant\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,154 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hand, with forms such as "ahnd", "hadn", and "handd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HD", "has", "hon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Hand, spelled H-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Main.
- 2Main ; fait de toucher un ballon avec la main ou le bras alors que c’est interdit.
- 3Au tarot, un des contrats, la « garde sans » ou « garde sans le chien ».
- 4Côté, à main droite ou à main gauche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er nahm ihre Hand in die seine.
Ich stehe in der Küche (...) und fülle eine Handvoll Kaffeebohnen in meine altmodische kleine Mühle. (...) Ich beginne, die Bohnen zu mahlen, von Hand. Freue mich über das knackende, krachende Geräusch, das sie dabei machen.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahnd
- hadn
- handd
- hannd
- hhand
- hnad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hand - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).