homologue
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,402
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
homologue is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui, dans des figures rectilignes semblables, se correspond et est opposé à des angles égaux en parlant de chacun des côtés de ces figures. Pronounced \ɔ.mɔ.lɔɡ\. Often confused with homologués and homologuée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɔ.mɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for homologue is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.mɔ.lɔɡ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,402 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for homologue, with forms such as "hhomologue", "hmoologue", and "homloogue". 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, "homologués", "homologuée", 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 homologue, spelled H-O-M-O-L-O-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui, dans des figures rectilignes semblables, se correspond et est opposé à des angles égaux en parlant de chacun des côtés de ces figures.
- 2Qui provient d’un autre individu ayant les mêmes caractéristiques sanguines.
- 3Concerne des structures que l'on considère comme héritées d'un ancêtre commun, quelles qu'en soient par ailleurs les variétés de forme (par exemple les ailes d'un oiseau et les bras d'un homme, homologues en tant que membres antérieurs). S'oppose à analogue.
- 4Corps homologues, se dit de substances organiques qui remplissent les mêmes fonctions, suivent les mêmes lois de métamorphose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhomologue,hmoologue,homloogue,hommologue,homolgoue,homollogue,homologeu,homologgue,homolouge,homoolgue,hoomlogue,ohmologue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for homologue
Misspelling Variants of "homologue"
Frequency rank: #15,402 in French
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