hangar

/^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.ɡaʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,400

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

hangar is aFrenchnoun. It means: Entrepôt ou remise ordinairement destinée à servir d’abri à des charrettes, à des récoltes, à des marchandises ou encore à des appareils d’aéronautique. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.ɡaʁ\. Often confused with Hanna and Hannah.

Key facts for hangar
PropertyValue
Headwordhangar
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.ɡaʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#15,400
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of hangar in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hangar is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.ɡaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,400 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Entrepôt ou remise ordinairement destinée à servir d’abri à des charrettes, à des récoltes, à des marchandises ou encore à des appareils d’aéronautique.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for hangar, with forms such as "ahngar", "hagnar", and "hanagr". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Hanna", "Hannah", "Hunger", 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 hangar, spelled H-A-N-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Entrepôt ou remise ordinairement destinée à servir d’abri à des charrettes, à des récoltes, à des marchandises ou encore à des appareils d’aéronautique.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ahngar,hagnar,hanagr,hangarr,hanggar,hangra,hanngar,hhangar,hnagar

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hangar

Misspelling Variants of "hangar"

ahngar6hagnar6hanagr6hangarr7hanggar7hangra6hanngar7hhangar7
Misspelling Variants of "hangar"

Frequency rank: #15,400 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hangar"?
"hangar" is spelled H-A-N-G-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.ɡaʁ\.
What does "hangar" mean?
As a noun, "hangar" means: Entrepôt ou remise ordinairement destinée à servir d’abri à des charrettes, à des récoltes, à des marchandises ou encore à des appareils d’aéronautique.
What words are commonly confused with "hangar"?
"hangar" is commonly confused with "Hanna", "Hannah", "Hunger". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "hangar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hangar" is ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.ɡaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hangar" come from?
"hangar" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.