havre
^((h aspiré))\avʁ\
The verdict
“havre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,093
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Port de mer, naturel ou artificiel, fermé et sûr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-havre · havre · French
havre · rank #6,093 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,093
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH grecque
Nearest frequency peer: grecque (-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 « havre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fred
fred
93,911 corpus weight
- graines
graines
93,910 corpus weight
- grecque
grecque
93,909 corpus weight
- havre
havre
93,908 corpus weight
- hiérarchie
hiérarchie
93,907 corpus weight
- home
home
93,906 corpus weight
What this shows « havre » 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 | havre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\avʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « havre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around havre (IPA ^((h aspiré))\avʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,093 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for havre, with forms such as "ahvre", "harve", and "haver". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "here", "heure", "hêtre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is havre, spelled H-A-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1ou Port de mer, naturel ou artificiel, fermé et sûr.
- 2ou Petit port qui reste sec à marée basse.
- 3ou Petit golfe, anse.
- 4Abri, refuge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how havre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] le Moustique mouilla dans le havre des îles Chausey, le terrible tangage qui avait si rudement secoué mes entrailles fit place au léger balancement d’un navire qui se repose […]
Le minuscule jardin attenant, clos par un mur de briques haut d’un mètre, voire d’un yard, fut bientôt un plaisant havre de pigeons et de moineaux attirés par les miettes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahvre
- harve
- haver
- havrre
- havvre
- hhavre
- hvare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of havre - 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 "havre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).