honoraire
^((h muet))\ɔ.nɔ.ʁɛːʁ\
The verdict
“honoraire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,157
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui, après avoir exercé longtemps une fonction, une charge, n’en conserve que le titre et les prérogatives honorifiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-honoraire · honoraire · French
honoraire · rank #15,157 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,157
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH help
Nearest frequency peer: help (-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 « honoraire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Hand
Hand
84,847 corpus weight
- hardy
hardy
84,846 corpus weight
- help
help
84,845 corpus weight
- honoraire
honoraire
84,844 corpus weight
- huissier
huissier
84,843 corpus weight
- humanitaires
humanitaires
84,842 corpus weight
What this shows « honoraire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | honoraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔ.nɔ.ʁɛːʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « honoraire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around honoraire (IPA ^((h muet))\ɔ.nɔ.ʁɛːʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,157 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 honoraire, with forms such as "hhonoraire", "hnooraire", and "honnoraire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "horaire", "Honorine", "honoraires", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is honoraire, spelled H-O-N-O-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui, après avoir exercé longtemps une fonction, une charge, n’en conserve que le titre et les prérogatives honorifiques.
- 2Qui porte un titre honorifique sans fonctions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how honoraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après le diner M. B., le ministre plénipotentiaire honoraire, me pris à part pour me consulter sur la possibilité de faire un détour pour éviter « cette Moulouya ».
Président honoraire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhonoraire
- hnooraire
- honnoraire
- honoarire
- honoraier
- honorairre
- honorarie
- honoriare
- honorraire
- honroaire
- hoonraire
- ohnoraire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of honoraire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "honoraire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).