Harvard
The verdict
“Harvard” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,170
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Université américaine située à Cambridge, dans l’agglomération de Boston, au Massachusetts.
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 | Harvard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Harvard” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Harvard, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,170 among 109,908 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Université américaine située à Cambridge, dans l’agglomération de Boston, au Massachusetts.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Harvard, with forms such as "ahrvard", "haravrd", and "harrvard". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hasard", "hazard", "Harald", 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 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 Harvard, spelled H-A-R-V-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Université américaine située à Cambridge, dans l’agglomération de Boston, au Massachusetts.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahrvard
- haravrd
- harrvard
- harvadr
- harvardd
- harvarrd
- harvrad
- harvvard
- havrard
- hharvard
- hravard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Harvard - 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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Using “Harvard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-A-R-V-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “hasard” - see the side-by-side comparison. Harvard vs hasard
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.