highway
^((h aspiré))\aj.wɛ\
The verdict
“highway” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,560
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande route, autoroute, d’un pays où on utilise localement ce mot, notamment les États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-highway · highway · French
highway · rank #34,560 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,560
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hartmann
Nearest frequency peer: Hartmann (-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 « highway »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hameçon
hameçon
65,444 corpus weight
- harmonica
harmonica
65,443 corpus weight
- Hartmann
Hartmann
65,442 corpus weight
- highway
highway
65,441 corpus weight
- Hippocrate
Hippocrate
65,440 corpus weight
- hung
hung
65,438 corpus weight
What this shows « highway » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | highway |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aj.wɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « highway »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around highway (IPA ^((h aspiré))\aj.wɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,560 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grande route, autoroute, d’un pays où on utilise localement ce mot, notamment les États-Unis.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for highway, with forms such as "hgihway", "hhighway", and "higghway". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is highway, spelled H-I-G-H-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Grande route, autoroute, d’un pays où on utilise localement ce mot, notamment les États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how highway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si bien qu’on ne sort pas plus d’un highway qu’on ne quitte une religion : on y évolue, on prend de nouvelles directions, on suit ses méandres, on s’engage sur des voies secondaires qui permettent d’aller jusqu’à chez soi.
Un type conduit sur une highway en Arizona.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hgihway
- hhighway
- higghway
- highawy
- highhway
- highwayy
- highwway
- highwya
- higwhay
- hihgway
- ihghway
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of highway - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "highway", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).