Hollywood
\ɔ.li.wud\
The verdict
“Hollywood” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,987 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #5,987
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Quartier de Los Angeles, ville de la Californie.
| 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) |
Where “Hollywood” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Hollywood is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.li.wud\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,987 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “Hollywood”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔ.li.wud\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.