handicap
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,198
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
handicap is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épreuve ou concours de vitesse, de force ou d’endurance dans lesquels on égalise les chances des concurrents d’âge ou de qualités différents, mais en leur attribuant ou en leur ôtant une certaine a... Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.di.kap\. It ranks #6,198 in French word frequency. Often confused with handicapé and handicaps.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | handicap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.di.kap\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for handicap is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.di.kap\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,198 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for handicap, with forms such as "ahndicap", "hadnicap", and "handciap". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "handicapé", "handicaps", "handicapés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is handicap, spelled H-A-N-D-I-C-A-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Épreuve ou concours de vitesse, de force ou d’endurance dans lesquels on égalise les chances des concurrents d’âge ou de qualités différents, mais en leur attribuant ou en leur ôtant une certaine avance de temps, de distance ou de poids.
- 2Désavantage physique ou mental subi par une personne.
- 3Entrave, gêne, empêchement de quelqu’un ou quelque chose de développer, d'exprimer au mieux toutes ses possibilités ou d'agir en toute liberté.
- 4Aux courses de galop, désavantage donné aux concurrents sous forme de poids supplémentaire qu'ils doivent porter en fonction notamment de leurs gains et de leurs classements passés, visant à équilibrer les chances de succès à l'arrivée.
- 5Course à handicap.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahndicap,hadnicap,handciap,handdicap,handiacp,handicapp,handiccap,handicpa,hanidcap,hanndicap,hhandicap,hnadicap
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for handicap
Misspelling Variants of "handicap"
Frequency rank: #6,198 in French
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