Hearst
\həɹst\
The verdict
“Hearst” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,486. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,486
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite ville francophone du nord de l'Ontario fondée au début du XXᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hearst · Hearst · French
Hearst · rank #43,486 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,486
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hang
Nearest frequency peer: hang (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hearst »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- géniteur
géniteur
56,519 corpus weight
- hallal
hallal
56,518 corpus weight
- hang
hang
56,517 corpus weight
- Hearst
Hearst
56,515 corpus weight
- ideas
ideas
56,512 corpus weight
- Ike
Ike
56,511 corpus weight
What this shows « Hearst » 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 | Hearst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \həɹst\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hearst »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Hearst (IPA \həɹst\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,486 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petite ville francophone du nord de l'Ontario fondée au début du XXᵉ siècle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hearst, with forms such as "eharst", "haerst", and "hearrst". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "heat", "heart", "horst", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Hearst, spelled H-E-A-R-S-T.
Definition
- 1Petite ville francophone du nord de l'Ontario fondée au début du XXᵉ siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hearst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La petite ville de Hearst, qui devrait s’appeler Bout du Monde, est centenaire aujourd'hui. Elle a l'âme bûcheronne, en souvenir de ces gaillards qui se sont échinés dans le bois, et de ces femmes colonisatrices; ….
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eharst
- haerst
- hearrst
- hearsst
- hearstt
- hearts
- heasrt
- herast
- hhearst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hearst - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Hearst", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).