hom
^((h aspiré))\ɔm\
The verdict
“hom” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,723) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,723
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui exprime le doute, la défiance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hom · hom · French
hom · rank #33,723 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,723
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hollow
Nearest frequency peer: hollow (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « hom »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- harcelée
harcelée
66,282 corpus weight
- hogan
hogan
66,280 corpus weight
- hollow
hollow
66,279 corpus weight
- hom
hom
66,278 corpus weight
- Homs
Homs
66,277 corpus weight
- hydratation
hydratation
66,274 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hom » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hom »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hom is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔm\. Frequency #33,723 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Qui exprime le doute, la défiance.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hom in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "Hs", "hr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hom, spelled H-O-M.
Definition
- 1Qui exprime le doute, la défiance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hom ! Il est encore bien jeune.
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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