hill
\hɪl\
The verdict
“hill” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,252) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,252
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colline.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hill · hill · French
hill · rank #8,252 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,252
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herbes
Nearest frequency peer: herbes (-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 « hill »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- habitations
habitations
91,752 corpus weight
- happy
happy
91,751 corpus weight
- herbes
herbes
91,750 corpus weight
- hill
hill
91,749 corpus weight
- immunité
immunité
91,748 corpus weight
- incarne
incarne
91,747 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hill » 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 | hill |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hɪl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hill »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hill is neighbouring look-alikes ("hip", "his", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \hɪl\. Frequency #8,252 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for hill, with forms such as "hhill", "hil", and "hlil". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hip", "his", "HLM", 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 hill, spelled H-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Colline.
- 2Voie penchante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhill
- hil
- hlil
- ihll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hill - 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 "hill", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).