hk
The verdict
“hk” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,998) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,998
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du préfixe hectokilo-, signifiant 10⁵.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hk · hk · French
hk · rank #24,998 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,998
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Herzégovine
Nearest frequency peer: Herzégovine (-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 « hk »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- hawks
hawks
75,006 corpus weight
- haïtienne
haïtienne
75,005 corpus weight
- Herzégovine
Herzégovine
75,004 corpus weight
- hk
hk
75,003 corpus weight
- hobby
hobby
75,002 corpus weight
- homosexuelle
homosexuelle
75,001 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hk » 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 | hk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #24,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hk »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hk is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #24,998 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du préfixe hectokilo-, signifiant 10⁵.".
hk doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 hk, spelled H-K.
Definition
- 1Symbole du préfixe hectokilo-, signifiant 10⁵.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tableau des multiples et sous-multiples décimaux PUISSANCE DE 10 PRÉFIXE À METTRE SYMBOLE À METTRE […] 10⁵ 100.000 hectokilo. hk. 10⁴ 10.000 myria. ma. […] 10⁻⁴ 0,000.1 décimilli. dm. 10⁻⁵ 0,000.01 centimilli. cm.
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.