homogène
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,717
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
homogène is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie une distribution uniformément répartie. Pronounced \o.mo.ʒɛn\. Often confused with homogènes and halogène.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homogène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \o.mo.ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for homogène is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.mo.ʒɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,717 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for homogène, with forms such as "hhomogène", "hmoogène", and "homgoène". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "homogènes", "halogène", 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 homogène, spelled H-O-M-O-G-È-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une distribution uniformément répartie.
- 2Qui est de même nature.
- 3Qui est formé de parties de même nature.
- 4Qualifie un mélange dont on ne peut pas distinguer les composants à l’œil nu.
- 5Uni, semblable, identique, en parlant d’un peuple, d’une réunion de personnes, en communauté de principes, de sentiments.
- 6Qualifie un bois dont les veines de printemps sont presque semblables à celles d'été, parfois peu visible.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhomogène,hmoogène,homgoène,hommogène,homogene,homoggène,homognèe,homogèen,homogènne,homoègne,hoomgène,ohmogène
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Misspelling Variants of "homogène"
Frequency rank: #10,717 in French
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