Harris
The verdict
“Harris” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,716
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglophone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harris · Harris · French
Harris · rank #10,716 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,716
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homogène
Nearest frequency peer: homogène (+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 « Harris »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- girard
girard
89,288 corpus weight
- gâcher
gâcher
89,287 corpus weight
- Harris
Harris
89,285 corpus weight
- homogène
homogène
89,284 corpus weight
- humilité
humilité
89,283 corpus weight
- imagines
imagines
89,281 corpus weight
What this shows « Harris » 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 | Harris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Harris »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Harris, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,716 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille anglophone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Harris, with forms such as "ahrris", "harirs", and "haris". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Harry", "hormis", "Harrison", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Harris, spelled H-A-R-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglophone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Harris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque Dave Gallaher, l’un des quatre sélectionneurs des All Blacks, arrive sous la pluie diluvienne de Wellington le 15 mai 1910, ses trois partenaires co-sélectionneurs, Meredith de Wellington, Wilson de Christchurch et Harris de Dunedin, ont déjà sous les yeux une liste de quatre-vingt-quatre gars qui sont proposés par les seize associations de rugby…
Steve Zahn, Jared Harris, Dylan Baker et John Magaro sont irrésistibles dans cette comédie à suspense que les frères Coen ne renieraient probablement pas et dont la sortie française est annoncée pour avril 2024.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahrris
- harirs
- haris
- harriss
- harrsi
- hharris
- hraris
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Harris - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).