hêtre
^((h aspiré))\ɛtʁ\
The verdict
“hêtre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,595
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre du genre Fagus de la famille des fagacées, à feuilles caduques ovales à nervation pennée et souvent dentées, de haute taille, à écorce lisse gris-clair pouvant fournir du tanin, en particulie...
Corpus desk
Index FR-hetre · hêtre · French
hêtre · rank #28,595 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,595
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hérode
Nearest frequency peer: Hérode (-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 « hêtre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- humblement
humblement
71,409 corpus weight
- hypothécaire
hypothécaire
71,408 corpus weight
- Hérode
Hérode
71,407 corpus weight
- hêtre
hêtre
71,406 corpus weight
- idéalisme
idéalisme
71,405 corpus weight
- IGN
IGN
71,404 corpus weight
What this shows « hêtre » 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 | hêtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hêtre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hêtre (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɛtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,595 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hêtre, with forms such as "hetre", "hhêtre", and "htêre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hôte", "heur", "heure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 hêtre, spelled H-Ê-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Arbre du genre Fagus de la famille des fagacées, à feuilles caduques ovales à nervation pennée et souvent dentées, de haute taille, à écorce lisse gris-clair pouvant fournir du tanin, en particulier le hêtre commun (Fagus sylvatica L. 1753).
- 2Bois de hêtre travaillé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hêtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a le pin d’Italie à écorce rouge avec son majestueux parasol ; il y a un cèdre âgé de deux cents ans, des saules pleureurs, un sapin du Nord, un hêtre qui le dépasse ; puis, en avant de la tourelle principale, les arbustes les plus singuliers, un if taillé qui rappelle quelque ancien jardin français détruit, des magnolias et des hortensias ; enfin, c…
Simple et rustique, elle est située, ma chaumière, comme une habitation de garde, à l’orée d’un joli bois de hêtres, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hetre
- hhêtre
- htêre
- hêrte
- hêter
- hêtrre
- hêttre
- êhtre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hêtre - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).