heroes
\ˈhɪɹ.oʊz\
The verdict
“heroes” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,582. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,582
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hero.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heroes · heroes · French
heroes · rank #22,582 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,582
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hermione
Nearest frequency peer: Hermione (-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 « heroes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gross
gross
77,422 corpus weight
- Hanovre
Hanovre
77,421 corpus weight
- Hermione
Hermione
77,420 corpus weight
- heroes
heroes
77,419 corpus weight
- hippie
hippie
77,418 corpus weight
- hisser
hisser
77,417 corpus weight
What this shows « heroes » 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 | heroes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɪɹ.oʊz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « heroes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around heroes (IPA \ˈhɪɹ.oʊz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,582 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de hero.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for heroes, with forms such as "ehroes", "heores", and "hereos". 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, "héros", "Hervé", "heures", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is heroes, spelled H-E-R-O-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hero.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehroes
- heores
- hereos
- heroess
- herose
- herroes
- hheroes
- hreoes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of heroes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).