HB
The verdict
“HB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,799) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,799
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Heure belge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hb · HB · French
HB · rank #29,799 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,799
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haas
Nearest frequency peer: haas (-2 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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « HB »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- guêpe
guêpe
70,206 corpus weight
- générant
générant
70,205 corpus weight
- haas
haas
70,204 corpus weight
- HB
HB
70,202 corpus weight
- Heinz
Heinz
70,200 corpus weight
- heurtent
heurtent
70,199 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « HB » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | HB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #29,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « HB »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for HB is neighbouring look-alikes ("He", "HD", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #29,799 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Heure belge.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for HB, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "He", "HD", "hi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is HB, spelled H-B.
Definition
- 1Heure belge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how HB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers 23 heures HB, l’euro valait 1,3906 dollar contre 1,3996 mardi à la même heure.
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.