hop
^((h aspiré))\ɔp\
The verdict
“hop” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,853) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,853
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appel pour faire sauter un enfant, un animal ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-hop · hop · French
hop · rank #3,853 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,853
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH générales
Nearest frequency peer: générales (-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 « hop »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gamin
gamin
96,151 corpus weight
- global
global
96,150 corpus weight
- générales
générales
96,149 corpus weight
- hop
hop
96,148 corpus weight
- horizon
horizon
96,147 corpus weight
- hésite
hésite
96,146 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hop » 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 | hop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hop »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hop is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔp\. Frequency #3,853 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hop in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "Hs", "hr", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hop, spelled H-O-P.
Definition
- 1Appel pour faire sauter un enfant, un animal ^([1]).
- 2Accompagne un saut, un mouvement rapide, un ordre immédiat, un enchaînement rapide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il lie connaissance avec le premier voyageur venu, joue aux cartes, et hop ! Le voilà plumé.
Aime-t-on la purée toute faite, et pourquoi ? Parce qu’elle est légère ? Parce qu’elle est onctueuse ? Parce qu’elle est si facile à faire : un geste et hop ?
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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