heures
^((h muet))\œʁ\
The verdict
“heures” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #347. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #347
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Heures canoniales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heures · heures · French
heures · rank #347 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #347
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heure
Nearest frequency peer: heure (-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 « heures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- centre
centre
99,657 corpus weight
- façon
façon
99,656 corpus weight
- heure
heure
99,655 corpus weight
- heures
heures
99,654 corpus weight
- loin
loin
99,653 corpus weight
- possible
possible
99,652 corpus weight
What this shows « heures » 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 | heures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\œʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « heures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around heures (IPA ^((h muet))\œʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #347 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 heures, with forms such as "ehures", "herues", and "heuers". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hours", "huées", "heurt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is heures, spelled H-E-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Heures canoniales.
- 2Livre qui contient les prières pour les heures canoniales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how heures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les vigiles , les prières fériales se disent seulement à matines et dans les Heures : mais aux vêpres suivantes on ne les dit point, parce que de là on fait de la fête.
Traditionnellement, matines et laudes se chantent dans la seconde moitié de la nuit, prime à 6 heures, tierce à 9 heures, sexte à midi, none à 15 heures, vêpres et complies en fin d'après- midi. Les heures comprennent surtout des psaumes et elles sont chantées au chœur dans le texte latin. Les choristes de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec se rendaient donc plusieur…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehures
- herues
- heuers
- heuress
- heurres
- heurse
- hheures
- hueres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of heures - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).