homos

\o.mo\

/\o.mo\/ noun

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The verdict

“homos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,040
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de homo.

Corpus desk

Index FR-homos · homos · French

homos · rank #19,040 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,040
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH gîte

Nearest frequency peer: gîte (-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 « homos »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « homos » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

homos vs hors
60% similar
homos vs hood
60% similar
homos vs hook
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for homos
PropertyValue
Headwordhomos
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.mo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#19,040
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « homos »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).homosse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gîte » (#19,039), « inconsciemment » (#19,041), « géométriques » (#19,038). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « homos » est au #19,040. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around homos (IPA \o.mo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,040 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de homo.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for homos, with forms such as "hhomos", "hmoos", and "hommos". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hors", "hood", "hook", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is homos, spelled H-O-M-O-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de homo.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how homos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il n'est pas besoin, pour être homophobe, de médire des homos, il suffit de ne pas reconnaître assez haut leur droit à la différence ; on est même hétérosexiste, dès lors qu'on fait semblant d'ignorer l'existence des homosexuels.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhomos
  • hmoos
  • hommos
  • homoss
  • homso
  • hooms
  • ohmos

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of homos - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

hhomos1hmoos2hommos1homoss1homso2hooms2ohmos2
Edit distance from "homos"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "homos"?
"homos" is spelled H-O-M-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is \o.mo\.
What does "homos" mean?
As a noun, "homos" means: Pluriel de homo.
What words are commonly confused with "homos"?
"homos" is commonly confused with "hors", "hood", "hook". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "homos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "homos" is \o.mo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "homos" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "homos", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list