hip
^((h aspiré))\ip\
The verdict
“hip” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,554) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,554
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À la mode, branché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hip · hip · French
hip · rank #8,554 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,554
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH han
Nearest frequency peer: han (-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 « hip »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gâteaux
gâteaux
91,450 corpus weight
- géniale
géniale
91,449 corpus weight
- han
han
91,448 corpus weight
- hip
hip
91,447 corpus weight
- honneurs
honneurs
91,446 corpus weight
- honnêtes
honnêtes
91,445 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hip » 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 | hip |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ip\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hip »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hip is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ip\. Frequency #8,554 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "À la mode, branché.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hip in our index, 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 documented word history exists for this headword, 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 hip, spelled H-I-P.
Definition
- 1À la mode, branché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cette époque, on était « hip » où on n’était rien. Il fallait rester branché, et un chapeau bien choisi est la meilleure façon de commencer.
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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