herbicide

\ɛʁ.bi.sid\

/\ɛʁ.bi.sid\/ noun

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The verdict

“herbicide” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,577
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produit qui détruit les végétaux herbacés ou ligneux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-herbicide · herbicide · French

herbicide · rank #48,577 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #48,577
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH heurt

Nearest frequency peer: heurt (+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 « herbicide »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « herbicide » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

herbicide vs herbicides
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for herbicide
PropertyValue
Headwordherbicide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛʁ.bi.sid\
Letters9
Frequency rank#48,577
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « herbicide »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.herbicidese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « heurt » (#48,578), « hombre » (#48,579), « houleuse » (#48,580). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « herbicide » est au #48,577. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around herbicide (IPA \ɛʁ.bi.sid\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,577 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Produit qui détruit les végétaux herbacés ou ligneux.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for herbicide, with forms such as "ehrbicide", "hebricide", and "herbbicide". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "herbicides", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is herbicide, spelled H-E-R-B-I-C-I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Produit qui détruit les végétaux herbacés ou ligneux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how herbicide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les herbicides étudiés, à propriétés antigraminées spécifiques, se sont montrés plus sélectifs que les produits de comparaison, précédemment utilisés en postémergence : dalapon et éthofumésate.
  2. Cette observation rejoint et confirme les résultats obtenus en culture mono-spécifique de Chaetoceros gracilis, contaminée par l’herbicide isoproturon à différents stades de croissance (figure 3.2, page 35).

Synonyms

désherbantphytocide

This word in other languages

herbicide(English)herbicida(Español)Herbizid(Deutsch)herbicida(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ehrbicide
  • hebricide
  • herbbicide
  • herbciide
  • herbiccide
  • herbicdie
  • herbicidde
  • herbicied
  • herbiicde
  • heribcide
  • herrbicide
  • hherbicide
  • hrebicide

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of herbicide - 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.

ehrbicide2hebricide2herbbicide1herbciide2herbiccide1herbicdie2herbicidde1herbicied2
Edit distance from "herbicide"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "herbicide"?
"herbicide" is spelled H-E-R-B-I-C-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛʁ.bi.sid\.
What does "herbicide" mean?
As a noun, "herbicide" means: Produit qui détruit les végétaux herbacés ou ligneux.
What words are commonly confused with "herbicide"?
"herbicide" is commonly confused with "herbicides". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "herbicide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "herbicide" is \ɛʁ.bi.sid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "herbicide" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "herbicide", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Gérardmer#48,571hésiterai#48,585idéalisée#48,587idéologue#48,588

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

grammaires13 variantsgradation13 variantsgonflant13 variantsinvoquées13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list