hon
\ɔ̃\
The verdict
“hon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,462) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,462
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cri de mécontentement. Quelquefois il se répète et s'emploie pour marquer la surprise, l'irrésolution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hon · hon · French
hon · rank #20,462 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,462
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homard
Nearest frequency peer: homard (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « hon »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- généalogique
généalogique
79,542 corpus weight
- hollandaise
hollandaise
79,541 corpus weight
- homard
homard
79,540 corpus weight
- hon
hon
79,539 corpus weight
- Hyères
Hyères
79,538 corpus weight
- illusoire
illusoire
79,537 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hon » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | hon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hon »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hon is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \ɔ̃\. Frequency #20,462 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for hon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "Hs", "hr", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hon, spelled H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Cri de mécontentement. Quelquefois il se répète et s'emploie pour marquer la surprise, l'irrésolution.
- 2Exclamation exprimant un attendrissement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hon ! hon ! il a remis là à payer ses créanciers ?
Hé quoi donc ? les battus, ma foi, paieront l'amende ! Voyons ce qu'elle chante : hon…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).