hec
The verdict
“hec” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,639) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,639
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Planche qu'on pose sur la vendange avant de la soumettre à l'action du pressoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hec · hec · French
hec · rank #16,639 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,639
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hate
Nearest frequency peer: hate (-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 « hec »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- généralistes
généralistes
83,365 corpus weight
- Harley
Harley
83,364 corpus weight
- hate
hate
83,363 corpus weight
- hec
hec
83,362 corpus weight
- Herman
Herman
83,361 corpus weight
- horde
horde
83,359 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hec » 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 | hec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hec »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hec is neighbouring look-alikes ("hi", "hp", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #16,639 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for hec in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hi", "hp", "Hs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hec, spelled H-E-C.
Definition
- 1Planche qu'on pose sur la vendange avant de la soumettre à l'action du pressoir.
- 2Partie inférieure d'une porte coupée en deux, et aussi la petite porte, susceptible de déplacement, à claire-voie, que l'on place, durant le jour, à l'entrée des habitations dans les fermes, pour empêcher les volailles et les animaux de basse-cour d'y pénétrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hec appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ilz alerent ensemble heurter au hec de l'uis de l'ostel dudit Obery, duquel hec ilz rompirent un ais ou deux.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).