hideux
^((h aspiré))\i.dø\
The verdict
“hideux” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,382. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,382
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est difforme à l’excès, affreux et repoussant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hideux · hideux · French
hideux · rank #29,382 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,382
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herrera
Nearest frequency peer: herrera (-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 « hideux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Hampshire
Hampshire
70,622 corpus weight
- hernie
hernie
70,621 corpus weight
- herrera
herrera
70,620 corpus weight
- hideux
hideux
70,619 corpus weight
- hindou
hindou
70,618 corpus weight
- horloger
horloger
70,617 corpus weight
What this shows « hideux » 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 | hideux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\i.dø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hideux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hideux (IPA ^((h aspiré))\i.dø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,382 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est difforme à l’excès, affreux et repoussant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hideux, with forms such as "hdieux", "hhideux", and "hiddeux". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "hide", "hiboux", "haineux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 hideux, spelled H-I-D-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est difforme à l’excès, affreux et repoussant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hideux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne restait plus dans la cave que deux choses hideuses à voir, un cadavre sans tête et une tête sans corps.
Un de nos hommes, pour s'amuser, se mit à loucher et à faire des grimaces; aussitôt un des jeunes Fuégiens, dont le visage était peint tout en noir, sauf une bande blanche à la hauteur des yeux, se mit aussi à faire des grimaces et il faut avouer qu'elles étaient bien plus hideuses que celles de notre matelot.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hdieux
- hhideux
- hiddeux
- hideuxx
- hidexu
- hiduex
- hiedux
- ihdeux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hideux - 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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