Honfleur

^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃.flœʁ\

/^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃.flœʁ\/ name

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The verdict

“Honfleur” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,365. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,365
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.

Corpus desk

Index FR-honfleur · Honfleur · French

Honfleur · rank #37,365 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #37,365
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH hiro

Nearest frequency peer: hiro (-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 « Honfleur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Honfleur » 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).

Honfleur vs honneur
63% similar

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

Key facts for Honfleur
PropertyValue
HeadwordHonfleur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃.flœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#37,365
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Honfleur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Honfleurse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « hiro » (#37,364), « humilie » (#37,366), « hippique » (#37,363). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « Honfleur » est au #37,365. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around Honfleur (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃.flœʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,365 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Honfleur, with forms such as "hhonfleur", "hnofleur", and "hofnleur". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "honneur", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Honfleur, spelled H-O-N-F-L-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
  2. 2
    Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Bellechasse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cette proposition m'était faite par mon ami Sapeck, sur la jetée de Honfleur, un après-midi d'été d'il y a quatre ou cinq ans.
  2. Peu de spectacles, en Europe, dépassent en grandeur celui qu’on découvre de Honfleur quand le soleil couchant, de ses flammes marines, éclaire jusqu’en ses profondeurs l’estuaire de la Seine.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhonfleur
  • hnofleur
  • hofnleur
  • honfelur
  • honffleur
  • honfleru
  • honfleurr
  • honflleur
  • honfluer
  • honlfeur
  • honnfleur
  • ohnfleur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Honfleur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

hhonfleur1hnofleur2hofnleur2honfelur2honffleur1honfleru2honfleurr1honflleur1
Edit distance from "Honfleur"

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 "Honfleur"?
"Honfleur" is spelled H-O-N-F-L-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃.flœʁ\.
What does "Honfleur" mean?
As a proper noun, "Honfleur" means: Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
What words are commonly confused with "Honfleur"?
"Honfleur" is commonly confused with "honneur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Honfleur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Honfleur" is ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃.flœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Honfleur" come from?
"Honfleur" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hippique#37,363hydrater#37,370Haguenau#37,355graveurs#37,352

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

imitateur12 variantsespacées12 variantsdéclinée12 variantsnymphes12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list