Hasselt
\a.sɛlt\
The verdict
“Hasselt” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,697. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,697
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la province de Limbourg de la région flamande de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hasselt · Hasselt · French
Hasselt · rank #49,697 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,697
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harengs
Nearest frequency peer: harengs (-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 « Hasselt »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- harcelait
harcelait
50,307 corpus weight
- Hardouin
Hardouin
50,306 corpus weight
- harengs
harengs
50,305 corpus weight
- Hasselt
Hasselt
50,304 corpus weight
- haïssait
haïssait
50,303 corpus weight
- hedge
hedge
50,301 corpus weight
What this shows « Hasselt » 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 | Hasselt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.sɛlt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hasselt »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Hasselt (IPA \a.sɛlt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #49,697 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune et ville de la province de Limbourg de la région flamande de Belgique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hasselt, with forms such as "ahsselt", "haselt", and "haseslt". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "haïssent", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Hasselt, spelled H-A-S-S-E-L-T.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la province de Limbourg de la région flamande de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hasselt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me prit la main et m’expliqua que Barbe avait été rappelée dans sa famille, entre Hasselt et Maestricht, peut-être pour des mois.
Ces débats se déroulaient à Hasselt, ce qui valut à l'avant-projet de V. Heylen le surnom de «texte de Hasselt».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahsselt
- haselt
- haseslt
- hassellt
- hasseltt
- hassetl
- hasslet
- hhasselt
- hsaselt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hasselt - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).