hashtag
^((h aspiré))\aʃ.taɡ\
The verdict
“hashtag” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,900
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot-clé utilisé sur les réseaux sociaux ; le mot-clé est préfixé par un croisillon (signe #, appelé hash en anglais).
Corpus desk
Index FR-hashtag · hashtag · French
hashtag · rank #15,900 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,900
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hallucinant
Nearest frequency peer: hallucinant (-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 « hashtag »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gérald
Gérald
84,104 corpus weight
- gérés
gérés
84,103 corpus weight
- hallucinant
hallucinant
84,102 corpus weight
- hashtag
hashtag
84,101 corpus weight
- hiérarchique
hiérarchique
84,100 corpus weight
- horizontal
horizontal
84,099 corpus weight
What this shows « hashtag » 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 | hashtag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʃ.taɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hashtag »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around hashtag (IPA ^((h aspiré))\aʃ.taɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,900 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for hashtag, with forms such as "ahshtag", "hahstag", and "hashatg". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hasta", "hashtags", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is hashtag, spelled H-A-S-H-T-A-G.
Definition
- 1Mot-clé utilisé sur les réseaux sociaux ; le mot-clé est préfixé par un croisillon (signe #, appelé hash en anglais).
- 2Signe #, caractère informatique de code ASCII 35, dit croisillon, fréquemment dit dièse. On trouve aussi, très rarement, symbole numéro, signe numéro.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hashtag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais aussi dans le monde entier, et chez nous, au pays de DSK en particulier, avec le hashtag #balancetonporc !
En revanche, le succès du hashtag #pasdevagues sur Twitter renvoie bien à mon sens aux difficultés éprouvées par les enseignants et à leur sentiment d’abandon par l’institution.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahshtag
- hahstag
- hashatg
- hashhtag
- hashtagg
- hashtga
- hashttag
- hasshtag
- hasthag
- hhashtag
- hsahtag
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hashtag - 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 "hashtag", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).