HD
\aʃ.de\
The verdict
“HD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,839) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,839
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haute définition, qualité d’images améliorée, dont la définition est d’au moins 720p (1280 x 720 pixels).
Corpus desk
Index FR-hd · HD · French
HD · rank #7,839 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,839
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Haïti
Nearest frequency peer: Haïti (-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 « HD »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- grippe
grippe
92,165 corpus weight
- gênant
gênant
92,164 corpus weight
- Haïti
Haïti
92,163 corpus weight
- HD
HD
92,162 corpus weight
- homo
homo
92,161 corpus weight
- horloge
horloge
92,160 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « HD » 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 | HD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʃ.de\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « HD »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for HD is neighbouring look-alikes ("He", "hi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \aʃ.de\. Frequency #7,839 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Haute définition, qualité d’images améliorée, dont la définition est d’au moins 720p (1280 x 720 pixels).".
Zero misspellings are on record for HD in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "He", "hi", "hp", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is HD, spelled H-D.
Definition
- 1Haute définition, qualité d’images améliorée, dont la définition est d’au moins 720p (1280 x 720 pixels).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how HD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vue y était dégagée comme la densité capillaire de Giscard. Elle était maousse, grandiose, aussi choucarde qu'un boulard en HD sur grand écran.
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.