hectare
\ɛk.taʁ\
The verdict
“hectare” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,310. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,310
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de superficie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant cent ares, et dont le symbole est ha.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hectare · hectare · French
hectare · rank #19,310 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,310
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH halo
Nearest frequency peer: halo (-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 « hectare »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- géniaux
géniaux
80,694 corpus weight
- géologiques
géologiques
80,693 corpus weight
- halo
halo
80,692 corpus weight
- hectare
hectare
80,691 corpus weight
- icônes
icônes
80,690 corpus weight
- ignorais
ignorais
80,689 corpus weight
What this shows « hectare » 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 | hectare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hectare »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around hectare (IPA \ɛk.taʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,310 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Unité de mesure de superficie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant cent ares, et dont le symbole est ha.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for hectare, with forms such as "ehctare", "hcetare", and "hecatre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hêtre", "Hector", "hectares", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hectare, spelled H-E-C-T-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de superficie en dehors du Système international (mais dont l’usage est accepté avec le SI), valant cent ares, et dont le symbole est ha.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hectare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On trouve aussi des vignes dans les communes de Suzanne, Tourteron, Guincourt , Neuville-et-Day. Ces quatre communes en contiennent environ 140 hectares produisant, année moyenne, 12,400 hectolitres de vin de médiocre qualité.
Pessan, le siège d’une antique abbaye, a une superficie de 2588 hectares où végètent encore 430 habitants.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehctare
- hcetare
- hecatre
- hecctare
- hectaer
- hectarre
- hectrae
- hecttare
- hetcare
- hhectare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hectare - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).