hh
\ho\
The verdict
“hh” is uncommon French (frequency #53,389 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a typographic variant. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,389
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de h.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hh · hh · French
hh · rank #53,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,389
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heal
Nearest frequency peer: heal (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « hh »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gymnastes
gymnastes
46,616 corpus weight
- gynécologues
gynécologues
46,615 corpus weight
- hadid
hadid
46,614 corpus weight
- heal
heal
46,613 corpus weight
- hh
hh
46,612 corpus weight
- Hiller
Hiller
46,610 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hh » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \ho\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #53,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hh is uncommon French at frequency #53,389 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as atypographic variant, transcribed \ho\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de h.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hh in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hh, spelled H-H.
Definition
- 1Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système h de h.
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.