hep
\ɛp\
The verdict
“hep” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,935) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,935
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sert principalement à appeler ou interpeller quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hep · hep · French
hep · rank #47,935 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,935
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herméneutique
Nearest frequency peer: herméneutique (+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 « hep »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Halley
Halley
52,070 corpus weight
- haltes
haltes
52,069 corpus weight
- hep
hep
52,066 corpus weight
- herméneutiq…
herméneutique
52,065 corpus weight
- higher
higher
52,064 corpus weight
- himself
himself
52,062 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hep » 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 | hep |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɛp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hep »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hep is neighbouring look-alikes ("hi", "hp", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \ɛp\. Frequency #47,935 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Sert principalement à appeler ou interpeller quelqu’un.".
hep doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hi", "hp", "Hs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hep, spelled H-E-P.
Definition
- 1Sert principalement à appeler ou interpeller quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hep appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hep, le mitrailleur, pas de nouvelles des chasseurs ?
Hep, tavernier, quel est cet homme avec un lion?
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).