hernie
^((h aspiré))\ɛʁ.ni\
The verdict
“hernie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,380
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tumeur molle formée par un organe ou une partie d’organe sorti de la cavité qui le contient normalement par un orifice naturel ou accidentel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hernie · hernie · French
hernie · rank #29,380 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,380
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hampshire
Nearest frequency peer: Hampshire (-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 « hernie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hamburgers
hamburgers
70,623 corpus weight
- Hampshire
Hampshire
70,622 corpus weight
- hernie
hernie
70,621 corpus weight
- herrera
herrera
70,620 corpus weight
- hideux
hideux
70,619 corpus weight
- hindou
hindou
70,618 corpus weight
What this shows « hernie » 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 | hernie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɛʁ.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hernie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hernie (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɛʁ.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,380 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hernie, with forms such as "ehrnie", "henrie", and "herine". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Hervé", "Horne", "Hérode", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 hernie, spelled H-E-R-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Tumeur molle formée par un organe ou une partie d’organe sorti de la cavité qui le contient normalement par un orifice naturel ou accidentel.
- 2Hernie abdominale ou descente.
- 3Maladie des choux, des navets, et des Brassicacées (ou Crucifères) plus généralement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hernie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hernie du cerveau, du poumon.
Hernies abdominales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehrnie
- henrie
- herine
- hernei
- hernnie
- herrnie
- hhernie
- hrenie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hernie - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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