heureux
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#877
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
heureux is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui jouit du bonheur, qui possède ce qui peut le rendre content. Pronounced \œ.ʁø\. It ranks #877 in French word frequency. Often confused with houleux and heure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heureux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \œ.ʁø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for heureux is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ.ʁø\. Corpus data places it at rank #877 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for heureux, with forms such as "ehureux", "herueux", and "heuerux". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "houleux", "heure", "heures", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is heureux, spelled H-E-U-R-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui jouit du bonheur, qui possède ce qui peut le rendre content.
- 2Se dit de la condition, de la situation, de la vie de celui qui est heureux.
- 3Favorisé par la vie ou par son sort.
- 4Qui rend fortuné, qui procure du plaisir ou qui est favorable et avantageux.
- 5Qui annonce de la prospérité, qui promet de la bonne fortune, ou qui prévient favorablement.
- 6Choses sujettes à quelque danger, lorsqu’elles arrivent sans accident.
- 7Se dit d’une chute ou de quelque autre chose de fâcheux qui n’a pas eu de mauvaise suite.
- 8Qui est bon, excellent, distingué ou rare en son genre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehureux,herueux,heuerux,heureuxx,heurexu,heurreux,heuruex,hheureux,huereux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for heureux
Misspelling Variants of "heureux"
Frequency rank: #877 in French
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Nearby French words
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