hockey
^((h aspiré))\ɔ.kɛ\
The verdict
“hockey” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,683
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu qui consiste à faire entrer une balle de cuir, un palet dans un but au moyen d’une crosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hockey · hockey · French
hockey · rank #3,683 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,683
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Gérard
Nearest frequency peer: Gérard (-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 « hockey »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gras
Gras
96,321 corpus weight
- générations
générations
96,320 corpus weight
- Gérard
Gérard
96,319 corpus weight
- hockey
hockey
96,318 corpus weight
- inscrire
inscrire
96,317 corpus weight
- instruments
instruments
96,316 corpus weight
What this shows « hockey » 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 | hockey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hockey »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hockey (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.kɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,683 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hockey, with forms such as "hcokey", "hhockey", and "hocckey". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "honey", "hoquet", "hoche", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 hockey, spelled H-O-C-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Jeu qui consiste à faire entrer une balle de cuir, un palet dans un but au moyen d’une crosse.
- 2Hockey sur glace.
- 3Bâton de hockey.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hockey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lady Diana, ce soir-là, était habillée très simplement : une petite robe de velours de laine vieux rouge ; une seule bague et un béret noir de joueuse de hockey.
J'accuse la Ligue nationale d'avoir fait de cet excitant sport qu'est le hockey le symbole de ta violence, du garrochage de rondelle et de l’accrochage.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hcokey
- hhockey
- hocckey
- hoceky
- hockeyy
- hockkey
- hockye
- hokcey
- ohckey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hockey - 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 "hockey", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).