have
^((h aspiré))\av\
The verdict
“have” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,020
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite éminence qui, sur le panneton d’une clé bénarde, empêche celle-ci de traverser la serrure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-have · have · French
have · rank #9,020 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,020
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH honnêteté
Nearest frequency peer: honnêteté (+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 « have »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gène
gène
90,985 corpus weight
- habitués
habitués
90,983 corpus weight
- have
have
90,981 corpus weight
- honnêteté
honnêteté
90,980 corpus weight
- hypocrisie
hypocrisie
90,979 corpus weight
- impérial
impérial
90,977 corpus weight
What this shows « have » 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 | have |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\av\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « have »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around have (IPA ^((h aspiré))\av\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,020 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petite éminence qui, sur le panneton d’une clé bénarde, empêche celle-ci de traverser la serrure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for have, with forms such as "ahve", "haev", and "havve". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "He", "hay", "hue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 have, spelled H-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Petite éminence qui, sur le panneton d’une clé bénarde, empêche celle-ci de traverser la serrure.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahve
- haev
- havve
- hhave
- hvae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of have - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).