holding
^((h aspiré))\ɔl.diŋ\
The verdict
“holding” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,384. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,384
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société ayant pour vocation de regrouper des participations dans diverses sociétés et dont la fonction est d’en assurer l’unité de direction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holding · holding · French
holding · rank #16,384 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,384
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hold
Nearest frequency peer: hold (-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 « holding »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- heureuses
heureuses
83,620 corpus weight
- hic
hic
83,619 corpus weight
- hold
hold
83,618 corpus weight
- holding
holding
83,617 corpus weight
- honduras
honduras
83,616 corpus weight
- illustrée
illustrée
83,615 corpus weight
What this shows « holding » 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 | holding |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔl.diŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « holding »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around holding (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɔl.diŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,384 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Société ayant pour vocation de regrouper des participations dans diverses sociétés et dont la fonction est d’en assurer l’unité de direction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for holding, with forms such as "hholding", "hloding", and "hodling". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "holdings", "holden", "Harding", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 holding, spelled H-O-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Société ayant pour vocation de regrouper des participations dans diverses sociétés et dont la fonction est d’en assurer l’unité de direction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how holding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’exercice de leur activité industrielle permet aux sociétés d’exploitation de renter le capital des actionnaires de la holding, selon des modalités définies par le statut des entreprises contrôlées.
Même ses employés l’appellent Jo, et son nom n’apparaît nulle part, sauf sans doute dans le capital de la holding qui possède la société, inscrite au registre du commerce.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hholding
- hloding
- hodling
- holdding
- holdign
- holdingg
- holdinng
- holdnig
- holidng
- hollding
- ohlding
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of holding - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).