hériter

^((h muet))\e.ʁi.te\

/^((h muet))\e.ʁi.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“hériter” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,626. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,626
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devenir propriétaire d’une chose par droit de succession.

Corpus desk

Index FR-heriter · hériter · French

hériter · rank #24,626 · 11 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,626
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH illico

Nearest frequency peer: illico (+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 « hériter »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « hériter » 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).

hériter vs hésite
71% similar
hériter vs hésitez
71% similar
hériter vs hésiter
86% similar

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

Key facts for hériter
PropertyValue
Headwordhériter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA^((h muet))\e.ʁi.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,626
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hériter »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).hériterse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « illico » (#24,627), « huissiers » (#24,624), « illumination » (#24,628). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « hériter » est au #24,626. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around hériter (IPA ^((h muet))\e.ʁi.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,626 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for hériter, with forms such as "heriter", "hhériter", and "hréiter". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "hésite", "hésitez", "hésiter", and more, 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 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 hériter, spelled H-É-R-I-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Devenir propriétaire d’une chose par droit de succession.
  2. 2
    Recevoir, être doté d’une chose qui vient d’ailleurs.
  3. 3
    Recueillir, posséder par succession.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Marx comparait le changement d’ère historique à une succession civile ; les temps nouveaux héritent des acquisitions antérieures.
  2. Cet homme a hérité d’une grande fortune, d’une grande succession.

This word in other languages

inherit(English)heredar(Español)erben(Deutsch)herdar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • heriter
  • hhériter
  • hréiter
  • héirter
  • hérietr
  • hériterr
  • héritre
  • héritter
  • hérriter
  • hértier
  • éhriter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

heriter1hhériter1hréiter2héirter2hérietr2hériterr1héritre2héritter1
Edit distance from "hériter"

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 "hériter"?
"hériter" is spelled H-É-R-I-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\e.ʁi.te\.
What does "hériter" mean?
As a verb, "hériter" means: Devenir propriétaire d’une chose par droit de succession.
What words are commonly confused with "hériter"?
"hériter" is commonly confused with "hésite", "hésitez", "hésiter". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "hériter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hériter" is ^((h muet))\e.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hériter" come from?
"hériter" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Jenkins#24,645fédérer#24,605funeste#24,602karaoké#24,650

Similar misspelling depth

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

huissiers11 variantsHimalaya11 variantsgracieux11 variantsgaulliste11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list