hombre
\ɔ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“hombre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,579. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,579
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de cartes originaire d’Espagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hombre · hombre · French
hombre · rank #48,579 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,579
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heurt
Nearest frequency peer: heurt (-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 « hombre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- herbicide
herbicide
51,424 corpus weight
- heurt
heurt
51,423 corpus weight
- hombre
hombre
51,422 corpus weight
- houleuse
houleuse
51,421 corpus weight
- Huston
Huston
51,419 corpus weight
- hydrocarbure
hydrocarbure
51,418 corpus weight
What this shows « hombre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | hombre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hombre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hombre (IPA \ɔ̃bʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,579 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hombre, with forms such as "hhombre", "hmobre", and "hobmre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "home", "homme", "honoré", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hombre, spelled H-O-M-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Jeu de cartes originaire d’Espagne.
- 2Celui qui mène la partie, à ce jeu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hombre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jeu de cartes appelé hombre, d’origine espagnole, se jouait à trois, avec 40 cartes.
Tout comme les bouts de carton bariolés qui ruinent ou enrichissent les joueurs, chaque pièce du jeu légal avait une valeur arbitraire : exactement comme à la blanque ou à l’hombre il était convenu qu’on se gardât à carreau, qu’on brouillât les cartes ou qu’on passât la main, qu’on se couvrît ou qu’on mentît.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhombre
- hmobre
- hobmre
- hombbre
- homber
- hombrre
- hommbre
- homrbe
- ohmbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hombre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).