hobbit
\ɔ.bit\
The verdict
“hobbit” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,886
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Hobbits, à leur culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hobbit · hobbit · French
hobbit · rank #23,886 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,886
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hammam
Nearest frequency peer: hammam (-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 « hobbit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- habilité
habilité
76,118 corpus weight
- haines
haines
76,117 corpus weight
- hammam
hammam
76,116 corpus weight
- hobbit
hobbit
76,115 corpus weight
- hordes
hordes
76,114 corpus weight
- hospital
hospital
76,113 corpus weight
What this shows « hobbit » 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 | hobbit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.bit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hobbit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hobbit (IPA \ɔ.bit\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,886 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux Hobbits, à leur culture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hobbit, with forms such as "hbobit", "hhobbit", and "hobbitt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "hobby", "habit", "Hobbes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hobbit, spelled H-O-B-B-I-T.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Hobbits, à leur culture.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hbobit
- hhobbit
- hobbitt
- hobbti
- hobibt
- hobit
- ohbbit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hobbit - 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.
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 "hobbit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).