hindou
\ɛ̃.du\
The verdict
“hindou” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,383. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,383
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’hindouisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hindou · hindou · French
hindou · rank #29,383 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,383
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hideux
Nearest frequency peer: hideux (-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 « hindou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- hydroélectr…
hydroélectrique
70,616 corpus weight
What this shows « hindou » 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 | hindou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.du\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hindou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hindou (IPA \ɛ̃.du\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,383 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hindou, with forms such as "hhindou", "hidnou", and "hinddou". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hindous", "hindoue", "hind", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hindou, spelled H-I-N-D-O-U.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’hindouisme.
- 2Relatif à l’Inde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hindou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] les bourgeois d’alors se faisaient de la société une idée un peu hindoue, et la considéraient comme composée de castes fermées où chacun, dès sa naissance, se trouvait placé dans le rang qu’occupaient ses parents, et d’où rien, à moins des hasards d’une carrière exceptionnelle ou d’un mariage inespéré, ne pouvait vous tirer pour vous faire pénétrer da…
Mais à cause des évangélistes radicaux, l’influence du christianisme était maintenant perçue par les ultranationalistes hindous comme une ingérence étrangère et une menace pour la nature hindoue de leur pays.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhindou
- hidnou
- hinddou
- hinduo
- hinndou
- hinodu
- hnidou
- ihndou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hindou - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).