historien
\is.tɔ.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“historien” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,568
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui fait des recherches, des études historiques, qui écrit des ouvrages d'histoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-historien · historien · French
historien · rank #5,568 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,568
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hectares
Nearest frequency peer: hectares (-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 « historien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- génétique
génétique
94,436 corpus weight
- habitat
habitat
94,435 corpus weight
- hectares
hectares
94,434 corpus weight
- historien
historien
94,433 corpus weight
- house
house
94,432 corpus weight
- identificat…
identification
94,431 corpus weight
What this shows « historien » 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 | historien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \is.tɔ.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « historien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around historien (IPA \is.tɔ.ʁjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,568 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for historien, with forms such as "hhistorien", "hisotrien", and "hisstorien". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "historiens", "historienne", "historia", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is historien, spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Personne qui fait des recherches, des études historiques, qui écrit des ouvrages d'histoire.
- 2Chroniqueur qui écrit ou qui a écrit une histoire.
- 3Celui qui se borne à raconter des faits sans les accompagner d’engagement ou de réflexions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how historien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle donne son nom au dernier ouvrage que l’historien Jean-Yves Guengant consacre au sujet.
L’historien n'a pas à délivrer des prix de vertu, à proposer des projets de statues, à établir un catéchisme quelconque ; son rôle est de comprendre ce qu'il y a de moins individuel dans les événements.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhistorien
- hisotrien
- hisstorien
- histoiren
- historein
- historienn
- historine
- historrien
- histroien
- histtorien
- hitsorien
- hsitorien
- ihstorien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of historien - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "historien", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).