HDMI
\aʃ.de.ɛm.i\
The verdict
“HDMI” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,114
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Standard d'affichage pour ordinateurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hdmi · HDMI · French
HDMI · rank #34,114 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,114
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH havas
Nearest frequency peer: havas (-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 « HDMI »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- haletant
haletant
65,890 corpus weight
- Hanson
Hanson
65,889 corpus weight
- havas
havas
65,888 corpus weight
- HDMI
HDMI
65,887 corpus weight
- heaven
heaven
65,886 corpus weight
- hippopotame
hippopotame
65,885 corpus weight
What this shows « HDMI » 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 | HDMI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʃ.de.ɛm.i\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « HDMI »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around HDMI (IPA \aʃ.de.ɛm.i\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,114 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for HDMI, with forms such as "dhmi", "hddmi", and "hdim". 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, "hi", "hm", "hum", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is HDMI, spelled H-D-M-I.
Definition
- 1Standard d'affichage pour ordinateurs.
- 2Câble d'écran utilisant ce standard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how HDMI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la clé, un ensemble composé d’une barre de son, d’un caisson (qui regroupe la connectique : une sortie HDMI ARC, une entrée optique Toslink pour l’audio, une entrée mini-jack 3,5 mm et un port USB en façade) et de deux petits satellites à disposer à l’arrière de son canapé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dhmi
- hddmi
- hdim
- hdmmi
- hhdmi
- hmdi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of HDMI - 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
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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).