hoc
^((h aspiré))\ɔk\
The verdict
“hoc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,770) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,770
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de jeu de carte introduit, parait-il, en France par Mazarin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hoc · hoc · French
hoc · rank #18,770 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,770
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hmmm
Nearest frequency peer: hmmm (-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 « hoc »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- had
had
81,234 corpus weight
- heurter
heurter
81,233 corpus weight
- hmmm
hmmm
81,232 corpus weight
- hoc
hoc
81,231 corpus weight
- holocauste
holocauste
81,230 corpus weight
- Huawei
Huawei
81,229 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hoc » 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 | hoc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hoc »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hoc is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔk\. Frequency #18,770 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
hoc doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "Hs", "hr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 hoc, spelled H-O-C.
Definition
- 1Sorte de jeu de carte introduit, parait-il, en France par Mazarin.
- 2Terme utilisé pour désigner une carte au jeu de la comète, et signifiant que l'on peut prendre la carte.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).