hawk
\hɔːk\
The verdict
“hawk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,588. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,588
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapace de la famille des accipitridés, et notamment les éperviers et les vautours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hawk · hawk · French
hawk · rank #28,588 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,588
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harmonies
Nearest frequency peer: harmonies (-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 « hawk »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hallucinati…
hallucination
71,416 corpus weight
- hantée
hantée
71,415 corpus weight
- harmonies
harmonies
71,414 corpus weight
- hawk
hawk
71,413 corpus weight
- Herzog
Herzog
71,412 corpus weight
- humanités
humanités
71,410 corpus weight
What this shows « hawk » 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 | hawk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hɔːk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hawk »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around hawk (IPA \hɔːk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,588 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for hawk, with forms such as "ahwk", "hakw", and "hawkk". 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, "hk", "how", "hay", and more, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hawk, spelled H-A-W-K.
Definition
- 1Rapace de la famille des accipitridés, et notamment les éperviers et les vautours.
- 2Rapace du genre Buteo (buteonine hawks) que les Anglais nomment buzzard.
- 3Va-t-en-guerre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hawk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Everybody knows who were the hawks and who were the doves,” Bundy told the ExComm on the morning of October 28, after Khrushchev announced that he was withdrawing his missiles. “Today was the day of the doves.”
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahwk
- hakw
- hawkk
- hawwk
- hhawk
- hwak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hawk - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "hawk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).