harkis
^((h aspiré))\aʁ.ki\
The verdict
“harkis” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,358
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de harki.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harkis · harkis · French
harkis · rank #37,358 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,358
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hampton
Nearest frequency peer: Hampton (-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 « harkis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Haguenau
Haguenau
62,646 corpus weight
- hamac
hamac
62,645 corpus weight
- Hampton
Hampton
62,644 corpus weight
- harkis
harkis
62,643 corpus weight
- Hartley
Hartley
62,642 corpus weight
- hexagonal
hexagonal
62,640 corpus weight
What this shows « harkis » 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 | harkis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.ki\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « harkis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around harkis (IPA ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.ki\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,358 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de harki.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for harkis, with forms such as "ahrkis", "hakris", and "hariks". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "hawks", "hormis", "Harris", 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 harkis, spelled H-A-R-K-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de harki.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how harkis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Samedi, dans un haut lieu de la mémoire harki, un ancien camp situé près de Perpignan, où furent regroupés, après la guerre d’Algérie, des harkis et leurs familles, le président devait déposer une gerbe, en compagnie notamment du ministre de la défense Gérard Longuet et de la secrétaire d’État à la jeunesse Jeanette Bougrab, elle-même fille de harkis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahrkis
- hakris
- hariks
- harkiss
- harkkis
- harksi
- harrkis
- hharkis
- hrakis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of harkis - 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 "harkis", 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).