hi
\i\
The verdict
“hi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,405) as an onomatopoeia. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,405
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cri de peur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hi · hi · French
hi · rank #8,405 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,405
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH guerrier
Nearest frequency peer: guerrier (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « hi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- GR
GR
91,599 corpus weight
- groupement
groupement
91,598 corpus weight
- guerrier
guerrier
91,597 corpus weight
- hi
hi
91,596 corpus weight
- historiquem…
historiquement
91,595 corpus weight
- idiots
idiots
91,594 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hi » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | hi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \i\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hi is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is anonomatopoeia pronounced \i\. Frequency #8,405 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hi in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "Hs", "hm", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hi, spelled H-I.
Definition
- 1Cri de peur.
- 2Sanglot, pleur.
- 3Gloussement de rire étouffé ou forcé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dona Isabel : Vous ne m’aimez pas. Le secrétaire, avec un cri aigu : Hi ! ma parole, vous allez me faire faire des fautes ! J’allais écrire : vous ne m’aimez pas, sur l’enveloppe. Monsieur le Corregidor Ruiz Zeballos, à Vounemémépaz.
« Ne dirait-on pas… hi ! hi !… que nous sommes… hi ! hi… Les gens les plus malheureux… hi ! hi !… de l’univers ? »
This word in other languages
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.