héréditaire
\e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“héréditaire” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,149
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se transmet par droit de succession, relatif à l'héritage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hereditaire · héréditaire · French
héréditaire · rank #16,149 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,149
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hémisphère
Nearest frequency peer: hémisphère (-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 « héréditaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- généalogie
généalogie
83,855 corpus weight
- hémisphère
hémisphère
83,853 corpus weight
- héréditaire
héréditaire
83,852 corpus weight
- impliquent
impliquent
83,851 corpus weight
- incline
incline
83,850 corpus weight
- inclusion
inclusion
83,849 corpus weight
What this shows « héréditaire » 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 | héréditaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « héréditaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around héréditaire (IPA \e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,149 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for héréditaire, with forms such as "hereditaire", "hhéréditaire", and "hrééditaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "héréditaires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is héréditaire, spelled H-É-R-É-D-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se transmet par droit de succession, relatif à l'héritage.
- 2Qui passe aux descendants.
- 3Se dit des vertus, des vices, des passions, etc.
- 4Il se dit dans un sens analogue des maladies qui passent des parents aux enfants.
- 5Qualifie une proposition H(n) dépendant d'un paramètre entier telle que H(n) implique H(n+1).
- 6Dans la locution dérivée « mot héréditaire », se dit d'un mot ancien dans la langue (et non d'un emprunt récent), « transmis par tradition orale ininterrompue » et issu des principales langues anciennes d'origine ou « langues mères » de la langue considérée. Il a souvent connu de nombreux changements phoniques, puis graphiques quand il a été transcrit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how héréditaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Possessions héréditaires.
Part héréditaire.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hereditaire
- hhéréditaire
- hrééditaire
- hérdéitaire
- hérréditaire
- hérédditaire
- hérédiatire
- héréditaier
- héréditairre
- héréditarie
- héréditiare
- hérédittaire
- hérédtiaire
- héréidtaire
- héérditaire
- éhréditaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of héréditaire - 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 "héréditaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).