heritage

noun

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The verdict

“heritage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,985. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,985
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Héritage, ce que l’on hérite.

Corpus desk

Index FR-heritage · heritage · French

heritage · rank #28,985 · 11 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,985
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH harmony

Nearest frequency peer: harmony (-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 « heritage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « heritage » 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).

heritage vs hérite
63% similar
heritage vs héritée
63% similar
heritage vs héritages
78% similar

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

Key facts for heritage
PropertyValue
Headwordheritage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,985
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « heritage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).heritagese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « harmony » (#28,984), « hole » (#28,986), « Harding » (#28,983). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « heritage » est au #28,985. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around heritage, anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,985 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Héritage, ce que l’on hérite.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for heritage, with forms such as "ehritage", "heirtage", and "heriatge". 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, "hérite", "héritée", "héritages", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is heritage, spelled H-E-R-I-T-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Héritage, ce que l’on hérite.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Perdu ad son heritage

Synonyms

heritance

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ehritage
  • heirtage
  • heriatge
  • heritaeg
  • heritagge
  • heritgae
  • herittage
  • herritage
  • hertiage
  • hheritage
  • hreitage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ehritage2heirtage2heriatge2heritaeg2heritagge1heritgae2herittage1herritage1
Edit distance from "heritage"

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 "heritage"?
"heritage" is spelled H-E-R-I-T-A-G-E.
What does "heritage" mean?
As a noun, "heritage" means: Héritage, ce que l’on hérite.
What words are commonly confused with "heritage"?
"heritage" is commonly confused with "hérite", "héritée", "héritages". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "heritage" come from?
"heritage" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Hortense#28,987générées#28,979importée#28,995invitait#29,000

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

harmony11 variantsHarding11 variantshabillage11 variantshésites11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list