head
\hɛd\
The verdict
“head” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,215
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la tête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-head · head · French
head · rank #18,215 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,215
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habitée
Nearest frequency peer: habitée (-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 « head »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gênée
gênée
81,789 corpus weight
- habitée
habitée
81,787 corpus weight
- head
head
81,786 corpus weight
- Helena
Helena
81,785 corpus weight
- huis
huis
81,784 corpus weight
- hull
hull
81,783 corpus weight
What this shows « head » 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 | head |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \hɛd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « head »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around head (IPA \hɛd\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,215 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for head, with forms such as "ehad", "haed", and "headd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hey", "Heu", "her", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is head, spelled H-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la tête.
- 2Relatif au chef, chef/directeur de.
- 3D’en face.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehad
- haed
- headd
- heda
- hhead
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of head - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "head", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).