héréditaire
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,149
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
héréditaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se transmet par droit de succession, relatif à l'héritage. Pronounced \e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\. Often confused with héréditaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | héréditaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for héréditaire is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʁe.di.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,149 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for héréditaire, with forms such as "hereditaire", "hhéréditaire", and "hrééditaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "héréditaires", 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 héréditaire, spelled H-É-R-É-D-I-T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Also misspelled as: hereditaire,hhéréditaire,hrééditaire,hérdéitaire,hérréditaire,hérédditaire,hérédiatire,héréditaier,héréditairre,héréditarie,héréditiare,hérédittaire,hérédtiaire,héréidtaire,héérditaire,éhréditaire
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for héréditaire
Misspelling Variants of "héréditaire"
Frequency rank: #16,149 in French
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