HLM
^((h aspiré))\a.ʃ‿ɛ.l‿ɛm\
The verdict
“HLM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,279) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,279
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Immeuble de logement géré par un organisme d’habitation à loyer modéré, public ou privé, qui bénéficie d’un financement public partiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hlm · HLM · French
HLM · rank #14,279 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,279
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hal
Nearest frequency peer: hal (-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 « HLM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gouverne
gouverne
85,726 corpus weight
- hal
hal
85,723 corpus weight
- HLM
HLM
85,722 corpus weight
- horizontale
horizontale
85,721 corpus weight
- humilier
humilier
85,720 corpus weight
- hurle
hurle
85,719 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « HLM » 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 | HLM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃ‿ɛ.l‿ɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « HLM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for HLM is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃ‿ɛ.l‿ɛm\. Frequency #14,279 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Immeuble de logement géré par un organisme d’habitation à loyer modéré, public ou privé, qui bénéficie d’un financement public partiel.".
HLM has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "Hs", "hm", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 HLM, spelled H-L-M.
Definition
- 1Immeuble de logement géré par un organisme d’habitation à loyer modéré, public ou privé, qui bénéficie d’un financement public partiel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how HLM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut savoir ce que l’on aime Et rentrer dans son HLM Manger du poulet aux hormones.
C’est ainsi que, de fil en aiguille, par des modifications successives dictées par la plus sage raison, on en est venu aux HLM qui sont l’orgueil des urbanistes de notre époque.
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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