Hérault
\e.ʁo\
The verdict
“Hérault” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,069. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,069
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve côtier du sud de la France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herault · Hérault · French
Hérault · rank #11,069 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,069
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hébreu
Nearest frequency peer: hébreu (-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 « Hérault »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Houston
Houston
88,935 corpus weight
- Hugues
Hugues
88,934 corpus weight
- hébreu
hébreu
88,933 corpus weight
- Hérault
Hérault
88,932 corpus weight
- idole
idole
88,931 corpus weight
- ignorant
ignorant
88,930 corpus weight
What this shows « Hérault » 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 | Hérault |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hérault »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Hérault (IPA \e.ʁo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,069 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hérault, with forms such as "herault", "hhérault", and "hréault". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "héraut", "hercule", "herald", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Hérault, spelled H-É-R-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Fleuve côtier du sud de la France.
- 2Département français d'Occitanie, qui porte le numéro 34.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hérault appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais le département de l’Hérault n’écarte pas la possibilité d’utiliser ce « béton coquillé » ailleurs, s’il s’avère, toutefois, aussi performant que le traditionnel.
Salut à toi, puisque tu as le succès, puisque tu fais de tes vignerons des multimillionnaires, ô Hérault rouge, ô Hérault vainqueur, source intarissable du vin populaire, métropole de ce pinard démocratique, devenu indispensable aux citoyens conscients.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- herault
- hhérault
- hréault
- héarult
- héralut
- héraullt
- héraultt
- hérautl
- hérrault
- hérualt
- éhrault
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hérault - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Hérault", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).