hooligans
\u.li.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“hooligans” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,307. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,307
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hooligan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hooligans · hooligans · French
hooligans · rank #40,307 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,307
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herbicides
Nearest frequency peer: herbicides (-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 « hooligans »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- halls
halls
59,698 corpus weight
- handisport
handisport
59,696 corpus weight
- herbicides
herbicides
59,695 corpus weight
- hooligans
hooligans
59,694 corpus weight
- Huber
Huber
59,693 corpus weight
- huskies
huskies
59,691 corpus weight
What this shows « hooligans » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hooligans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u.li.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hooligans »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around hooligans (IPA \u.li.ɡɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,307 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de hooligan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for hooligans, with forms such as "hhooligans", "holigans", and "holoigans". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 hooligans, spelled H-O-O-L-I-G-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hooligan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhooligans
- holigans
- holoigans
- hooilgans
- hoolgians
- hooliagns
- hooliganns
- hooliganss
- hooligasn
- hooliggans
- hoolignas
- hoolligans
- oholigans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hooligans - 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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).