historia

^((h muet))\is.tɔ.ʁja\

/^((h muet))\is.tɔ.ʁja\/ verb

The verdict

“historia” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,039. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,039
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de historier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-historia · historia · French

historia · rank #26,039 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,039
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH helvétique

Nearest frequency peer: helvétique (-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 « historia »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « historia » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

historia vs history
75% similar
historia vs historien
78% similar
historia vs historical
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for historia
PropertyValue
Headwordhistoria
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA^((h muet))\is.tɔ.ʁja\
Letters8
Frequency rank#26,039
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « historia »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).historiase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « helvétique » (#26,038), « hou » (#26,040), « Helsinki » (#26,037). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « historia » est au #26,039. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around historia (IPA ^((h muet))\is.tɔ.ʁja\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,039 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de historier.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for historia, with forms such as "hhistoria", "hisotria", and "hisstoria". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "history", "historien", "historical", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is historia, spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de historier.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhistoria
  • hisotria
  • hisstoria
  • histoira
  • historai
  • historria
  • histroia
  • histtoria
  • hitsoria
  • hsitoria
  • ihstoria

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of historia - 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.

hhistoria1hisotria2hisstoria1histoira2historai2historria1histroia2histtoria1
Edit distance from "historia"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "historia"?
"historia" is spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\is.tɔ.ʁja\.
What does "historia" mean?
As a verb, "historia" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de historier.
What words are commonly confused with "historia"?
"historia" is commonly confused with "history", "historien", "historical". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "historia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "historia" is ^((h muet))\is.tɔ.ʁja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "historia" come from?
"historia" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "historia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list