hit
^((h aspiré))\it\
The verdict
“hit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,695) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,695
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tube.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hit · hit · French
hit · rank #14,695 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,695
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hs
Nearest frequency peer: Hs (+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 « hit »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Hanouna
Hanouna
85,309 corpus weight
- hart
hart
85,308 corpus weight
- hit
hit
85,306 corpus weight
- Hs
Hs
85,305 corpus weight
- ignorait
ignorait
85,303 corpus weight
- iles
iles
85,302 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hit » 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 | hit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\it\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hit »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hit is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced ^((h aspiré))\it\. Frequency #14,695 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hit in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "Hs", "hm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hit, spelled H-I-T.
Definition
- 1Tube.
- 2Succès.
- 3Claie en bois qui servait à égoutter les moules destinés à former les pains de sucre.
- 4Au baseball, coup sûr : frappe qui permet au batteur d’atteindre une des bases.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pourrait l’enregistrer tout de suite faire un hit avec, c’est un hit assuré !
Derrière ce nom coloré, Solal, on retrouve les associés du Monkey Club, Soda Bar et de la Maison M., on a donc de bonnes raisons de penser que ce nouveau lieu qui est un bar à cocktails et un restaurant aux influences méditerranéennes risque d’être un hit (comme on disait en 2003).
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).