harmonie

/^((h muet))\aʁ.mɔ.ni\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,199

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

harmonie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Concours et accord de divers sons. Pronounced ^((h muet))\aʁ.mɔ.ni\. It ranks #6,199 in French word frequency. Often confused with hormone and harmony.

Key facts for harmonie
PropertyValue
Headwordharmonie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h muet))\aʁ.mɔ.ni\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,199
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for harmonie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\aʁ.mɔ.ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,199 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for harmonie, with forms such as "ahrmonie", "hamronie", and "harmmonie". 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, "hormone", "harmony", "harmonies", 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 harmonie, spelled H-A-R-M-O-N-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Concours et accord de divers sons.
  2. 2
    Succession d’accords, par opposition à la mélodie.
  3. 3
    Ensemble d’instruments à vent.
  4. 4
    Compagnie de musiciens concertants.
  5. 5
    Son net, doux ou agréable.
  6. 6
    Concours de sons, de mots qui flattent l’oreille ; nombre, cadence.
  7. 7
    Accord parfait et une entière correspondance de plusieurs parties qui forment un tout, ou qui concourent à une même fin.
  8. 8
    Concorde, en parlant des personnes.
  9. 9
    Articulation dans laquelle les os sont liés ensemble par des dentelures presque imperceptibles. Cette articulation se remarque surtout à un des os de la face.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ahrmonie,hamronie,harmmonie,harmnoie,harmoine,harmonei,harmonnie,haromnie,harrmonie,hharmonie,hramonie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for harmonie

Misspelling Variants of "harmonie"

ahrmonie8hamronie8harmmonie9harmnoie8harmoine8harmonei8harmonnie9haromnie8
Misspelling Variants of "harmonie"

Frequency rank: #6,199 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "harmonie"?
"harmonie" is spelled H-A-R-M-O-N-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\aʁ.mɔ.ni\.
What does "harmonie" mean?
As a noun, "harmonie" means: Concours et accord de divers sons.
What words are commonly confused with "harmonie"?
"harmonie" is commonly confused with "hormone", "harmony", "harmonies". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "harmonie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "harmonie" is ^((h muet))\aʁ.mɔ.ni\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "harmonie" come from?
"harmonie" 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.