harbor
\ˈhɑːr.bɜː\
The verdict
“harbor” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,622. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,622
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rade, havre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harbor · harbor · French
harbor · rank #24,622 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,622
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habitaient
Nearest frequency peer: habitaient (-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 « harbor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- généralise
généralise
75,382 corpus weight
- habitable
habitable
75,381 corpus weight
- habitaient
habitaient
75,380 corpus weight
- harbor
harbor
75,379 corpus weight
- Himalaya
Himalaya
75,378 corpus weight
- huissiers
huissiers
75,377 corpus weight
What this shows « harbor » 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 | harbor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɑːr.bɜː\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « harbor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around harbor (IPA \ˈhɑːr.bɜː\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,622 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rade, havre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for harbor, with forms such as "ahrbor", "habror", and "harbbor". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "haro", "harper", "horror", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is harbor, spelled H-A-R-B-O-R.
Definition
- 1Rade, havre.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahrbor
- habror
- harbbor
- harborr
- harbro
- harobr
- harrbor
- hharbor
- hrabor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of harbor - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "harbor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).