Hollywood
\ɔ.li.wud\
The verdict
“Hollywood” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,987
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier de Los Angeles, ville de la Californie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hollywood · Hollywood · French
Hollywood · rank #5,987 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,987
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH générique
Nearest frequency peer: générique (-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 « Hollywood »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- golfe
golfe
94,017 corpus weight
- green
green
94,016 corpus weight
- générique
générique
94,015 corpus weight
- Hollywood
Hollywood
94,014 corpus weight
- Hongrie
Hongrie
94,013 corpus weight
- individuell…
individuelles
94,012 corpus weight
What this shows « Hollywood » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hollywood |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.li.wud\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hollywood »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Hollywood (IPA \ɔ.li.wud\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,987 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hollywood, with forms such as "hhollywood", "hlolywood", and "hollwyood". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Hollywood, spelled H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1Quartier de Los Angeles, ville de la Californie.
- 2Industrie cinématographique des États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hollywood appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand j'étais à Hollywood, j'ai remarqué que tous les acteurs américains ne buvaient pas. Nous, les Britanniques, on est des vrais alcolos, à côté.
Dûment interrogée de la voix et du geste, celle-ci inonda ses patrons sous les flots d’un discours roucoulant où l’on crut discerner le nom d’Hollywood. Hollywood était un village de Californie où convergeaient les célébrités du moment.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhollywood
- hlolywood
- hollwyood
- hollyowod
- hollywod
- hollywodo
- hollywoodd
- hollywwood
- hollyywood
- holylwood
- holywood
- ohllywood
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hollywood - 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 "Hollywood", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).