hectares
\ɛk.taʁ\
The verdict
“hectares” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,567. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,567
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hectare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hectares · hectares · French
hectares · rank #5,567 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,567
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habitat
Nearest frequency peer: habitat (-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 « hectares »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- guinée
guinée
94,437 corpus weight
- génétique
génétique
94,436 corpus weight
- habitat
habitat
94,435 corpus weight
- hectares
hectares
94,434 corpus weight
- historien
historien
94,433 corpus weight
- house
house
94,432 corpus weight
What this shows « hectares » 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 | hectares |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hectares »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around hectares (IPA \ɛk.taʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,567 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de hectare.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hectares, with forms such as "ehctares", "hcetares", and "hecatres". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hêtres", "hectare", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hectares, spelled H-E-C-T-A-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hectare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hectares appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes parents ne possédaient que quinze hectares mais, accroupis ou à genoux, en se relevant tout doucement à intervalles réguliers pour se décasser les reins et les genoux, sous une journée de juillet, quinze hectares, c’est long comme le Groenland, de bas en haut, de long en large ; ça n’en finit pas d’être long.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehctares
- hcetares
- hecatres
- hecctares
- hectaers
- hectaress
- hectarres
- hectarse
- hectraes
- hecttares
- hetcares
- hhectares
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hectares - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).