hargneux
^((h aspiré))\aʁ.ɲø\
The verdict
“hargneux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,093
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dénote la hargne, qui est d’humeur chagrine, agressive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hargneux · hargneux · French
hargneux · rank #45,093 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,093
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH génératrices
Nearest frequency peer: génératrices (-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 « hargneux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gut
gut
54,912 corpus weight
- Gédéon
Gédéon
54,911 corpus weight
- gégé
gégé
54,910 corpus weight
- génératrices
génératrices
54,909 corpus weight
- hargneux
hargneux
54,908 corpus weight
- healthy
healthy
54,907 corpus weight
What this shows « hargneux » 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 | hargneux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.ɲø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hargneux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around hargneux (IPA ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.ɲø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,093 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hargneux, with forms such as "ahrgneux", "hagrneux", and "hargenux". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hargne", "haineux", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 hargneux, spelled H-A-R-G-N-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui dénote la hargne, qui est d’humeur chagrine, agressive.
- 2Qui mord, qui rue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hargneux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arsène André perçait enfin la brume de ce préambule. Ah ! ah ! l’hypocrisie hargneuse le circonvenait comme un filet de chasse ; […].
Ce 4 mars, Hébert, hargneux, enflammait les tribunes du club des Cordeliers pleines à craquer de « bonnets rouges ». Comme ceux qui venaient de le précéder au perchoir, il désignait Robespierre et ses alliés sans les nommer, préférant employer le mot faction.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahrgneux
- hagrneux
- hargenux
- harggneux
- hargneuxx
- hargnexu
- hargnneux
- hargnuex
- harngeux
- harrgneux
- hhargneux
- hragneux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hargneux - 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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