hin
The verdict
“hin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,985) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,985
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne mesure égyptienne de capacité pour les liquides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hin · hin · French
hin · rank #35,985 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,985
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hipster
Nearest frequency peer: hipster (+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 « hin »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- hem
hem
64,019 corpus weight
- herb
herb
64,018 corpus weight
- hin
hin
64,016 corpus weight
- hipster
hipster
64,015 corpus weight
- homélie
homélie
64,014 corpus weight
- Hortefeux
Hortefeux
64,013 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hin » 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 | hin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hin »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hin is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #35,985 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hin, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hin, spelled H-I-N.
Definition
- 1Ancienne mesure égyptienne de capacité pour les liquides.
- 2Onomatopée indiquant un rire sadique ou cynique de satisfaction discrète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La détermination du hin, la mesure de capacité la plus fréquemment usitée chez les anciens Égyptiens […] l’auteur [M. Chabas] […] a évalué, à l’aide de documents d’origine certaine et de signification précise, la contenance du hin à 46 centilitres.
On retrouve d’ordinaire 12 hins de l’huile fin (de sésame) et 12 hins d’huile de tekem (ou κικι).
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).