herbe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,862
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
herbe is aFrenchnoun. It means: (sens strict) Un végétal vert, monocotylédone ou dicotylédone, à tige fine et molle car non ligneuse (pas un tronc ni une stipe), vivace ou annuel, et qui perd tiges et feuilles en hiver. Pronounced \ɛʁb\. It ranks #4,862 in French word frequency. Often confused with here and hero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁb\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for herbe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛʁb\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,862 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for herbe, with forms such as "ehrbe", "hebre", and "herbbe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "here", "hero", "Herr", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is herbe, spelled H-E-R-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(sens strict) Un végétal vert, monocotylédone ou dicotylédone, à tige fine et molle car non ligneuse (pas un tronc ni une stipe), vivace ou annuel, et qui perd tiges et feuilles en hiver.
- 2Une plante qui a des propriétés particulières.
- 3Ensemble des plantes qui couvrent les pâturages, les prairies, les lieux peu fréquentés, etc., et que l’on coupe ordinairement pour la nourriture des chevaux et des bestiaux.
- 4Entre comme terme générique dans plusieurs des noms vulgaires donnés aux plantes usuelles ou très communes.
- 5Nom donné au chanvre indien, ainsi qu’à ses fleurs séchées, la marijuana.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehrbe,hebre,herbbe,hereb,herrbe,hherbe,hrebe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for herbe
Misspelling Variants of "herbe"
Frequency rank: #4,862 in French
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