holiday
\ˈhɑl.ə.ˌdeɪ\
The verdict
“holiday” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,837
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jour férié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holiday · holiday · French
holiday · rank #27,837 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,837
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hivernal
Nearest frequency peer: hivernal (-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 « holiday »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- harmonique
harmonique
72,167 corpus weight
- Hegel
Hegel
72,166 corpus weight
- hivernal
hivernal
72,165 corpus weight
- holiday
holiday
72,164 corpus weight
- homosexuell…
homosexuelles
72,163 corpus weight
- homéopathie
homéopathie
72,162 corpus weight
What this shows « holiday » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holiday |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɑl.ə.ˌdeɪ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « holiday »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around holiday (IPA \ˈhɑl.ə.ˌdeɪ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,837 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for holiday, with forms such as "hholiday", "hloiday", and "hoilday". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is holiday, spelled H-O-L-I-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Jour férié.
- 2Vacances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how holiday appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States.
To go on holiday.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hholiday
- hloiday
- hoilday
- holdiay
- holiady
- holidayy
- holidday
- holidya
- holliday
- ohliday
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of holiday - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "holiday", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).