holstein
^((h aspiré))\ɔl.stajn\
The verdict
“holstein” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,884
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race très laitière de taurin internationale, originaire de Frise (nord des Pays-Bas) et du Holstein, à robe pie noire (surtout) ou pie rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holstein · holstein · French
holstein · rank #36,884 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,884
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hockeyeur
Nearest frequency peer: hockeyeur (-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 « holstein »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hexagonale
hexagonale
63,120 corpus weight
- Hilda
Hilda
63,119 corpus weight
- hockeyeur
hockeyeur
63,118 corpus weight
- holstein
holstein
63,117 corpus weight
- honteusement
honteusement
63,116 corpus weight
- Huang
Huang
63,115 corpus weight
What this shows « holstein » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holstein |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔl.stajn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « holstein »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around holstein (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɔl.stajn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,884 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for holstein, with forms such as "hholstein", "hlostein", and "hollstein". 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 holstein, spelled H-O-L-S-T-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1Race très laitière de taurin internationale, originaire de Frise (nord des Pays-Bas) et du Holstein, à robe pie noire (surtout) ou pie rouge.
- 2Chacun de ces bovins.
- 3Lignée de chevaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how holstein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ayrshire est moins longue que la holstein.
Il y a même les vaches, non pas les holsteins mais les normandes. Fumée des poêles dans le crachin breton.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hholstein
- hlostein
- hollstein
- holsetin
- holsstein
- holsteinn
- holsteni
- holstien
- holsttein
- holtsein
- hosltein
- ohlstein
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of holstein - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).