homard
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,461
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
homard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Crustacé décapode dont les deux pattes de devant ont la forme de pinces. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.maʁ\. Often confused with huard and Howard.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for homard is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.maʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,461 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for homard, with forms such as "hhomard", "hmoard", and "hoamrd". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "huard", "Howard", "Homère", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is homard, spelled H-O-M-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Crustacé décapode dont les deux pattes de devant ont la forme de pinces.
- 2Chair de cet animal.
- 3Surnom donné aux spahis, sans doute en raison de la couleur rouge de leur burnous identique à la couleur du homard après la cuisson (voir illustrations ci-contre).
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en pal, vu de dos, pinces vers le chef. Il est difficile à différencier de l’écrevisse dans les représentations. Les antennes peuvent donner un indice, mais il n’y a pas de règle en la matière. On se réfèrera donc à l’environnement culturel, économique ou historique de l’armigère (porteur des armes) pour déterminer s'il s’agit ou non d'un homard. À rapprocher de crabe, crevette et écrevisse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhomard,hmoard,hoamrd,homadr,homardd,homarrd,hommard,homrad,ohmard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for homard
Misspelling Variants of "homard"
Frequency rank: #20,461 in French
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