help
\hɛlp\
The verdict
“help” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,156. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,156
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À l’aide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-help · help · French
help · rank #15,156 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,156
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hardy
Nearest frequency peer: hardy (-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 « help »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gun
gun
84,848 corpus weight
- Hand
Hand
84,847 corpus weight
- hardy
hardy
84,846 corpus weight
- help
help
84,845 corpus weight
- honoraire
honoraire
84,844 corpus weight
- huissier
huissier
84,843 corpus weight
What this shows « help » 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 | help |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \hɛlp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « help »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around help (IPA \hɛlp\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #15,156 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for help, with forms such as "ehlp", "hellp", and "helpp". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "hey", "hop", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is help, spelled H-E-L-P.
Definition
- 1À l’aide.
- 2Au secours.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehlp
- hellp
- helpp
- hepl
- hhelp
- hlep
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of help - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "help", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).