holocauste
\o.lo.kost\
The verdict
“holocauste” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,771. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,771
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sacrifice dans lequel la victime était entièrement consumée par le feu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holocauste · holocauste · French
holocauste · rank #18,771 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,771
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hoc
Nearest frequency peer: hoc (-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 « holocauste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- heurter
heurter
81,233 corpus weight
- hmmm
hmmm
81,232 corpus weight
- hoc
hoc
81,231 corpus weight
- holocauste
holocauste
81,230 corpus weight
- Huawei
Huawei
81,229 corpus weight
- hégémonie
hégémonie
81,228 corpus weight
What this shows « holocauste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holocauste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.lo.kost\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « holocauste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around holocauste (IPA \o.lo.kost\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,771 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for holocauste, with forms such as "hholocauste", "hloocauste", and "holcoauste". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 holocauste, spelled H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sacrifice dans lequel la victime était entièrement consumée par le feu.
- 2La victime ainsi sacrifiée.
- 3Sacrifice en général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how holocauste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une douzaine, scribes et valets des prêtres, nourris par le rebut des holocaustes, s’élancèrent jusqu’au bas de l’estrade.
Naboth est devant eux, debout, les bras liés, Comme pour l’holocauste un bouc, noire victime Par qui les vieux péchés de tous sont expiés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hholocauste
- hloocauste
- holcoauste
- hollocauste
- holoacuste
- holocasute
- holocauset
- holocausste
- holocaustte
- holocautse
- holoccauste
- holocuaste
- hoolcauste
- ohlocauste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of holocauste - 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 "holocauste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).