HBO
The verdict
“HBO” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,751) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,751
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaîne de télévision payante américaine qui produit et diffuse entre autres des séries.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hbo · HBO · French
HBO · rank #20,751 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,751
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH half
Nearest frequency peer: half (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « HBO »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gratis
gratis
79,253 corpus weight
- généreuseme…
généreusement
79,252 corpus weight
- half
half
79,251 corpus weight
- HBO
HBO
79,250 corpus weight
- heather
heather
79,249 corpus weight
- honteuse
honteuse
79,248 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « HBO » 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 | HBO |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « HBO »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for HBO is neighbouring look-alikes ("He", "HD", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #20,751 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Chaîne de télévision payante américaine qui produit et diffuse entre autres des séries.".
Zero misspellings are on record for HBO in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is HBO, spelled H-B-O.
Definition
- 1Chaîne de télévision payante américaine qui produit et diffuse entre autres des séries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how HBO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En mai 2019, la série phénomène d’HBO tirait sa révérence après une ultime saison controversée. Mais les fans se consolaient tout de même avec l’annonce d’un spin-off.
L’adaptation du jeu culte de Naughty Dog par Craig Mazin et Neil Druckmann pourrait devenir la nouvelle série phénomène de HBO, après Games of Thrones.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "HBO"?
What does "HBO" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "HBO"?
What language does "HBO" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "HBO", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).