Horace
^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁas\
The verdict
“Horace” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,447. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,447
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom des membres de la gens romaine patricienne Horatia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horace · Horace · French
Horace · rank #17,447 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,447
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH havane
Nearest frequency peer: havane (-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 « Horace »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- génétiqueme…
génétiquement
82,556 corpus weight
- havane
havane
82,555 corpus weight
- Horace
Horace
82,554 corpus weight
- hôtesse
hôtesse
82,553 corpus weight
- identifiées
identifiées
82,552 corpus weight
- Igor
Igor
82,551 corpus weight
What this shows « Horace » 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 | Horace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Horace »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Horace (IPA ^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁas\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,447 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Horace, with forms such as "hhorace", "hoarce", and "horacce". 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, "horde", "horse", "Horne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Horace, spelled H-O-R-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Nom des membres de la gens romaine patricienne Horatia.
- 2Celui des trois Horaces survivant au combat légendaire mené contre les trois Curiaces au VIIᵉ siècle avant notre ère.
- 3Quintus Horatius Flaccus, poète latin né en -65 et décédé en -8.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Horace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Serment des Horaces.
Le combat des Horaces et des Curiaces.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorace
- hoarce
- horacce
- horaec
- horcae
- horrace
- hroace
- ohrace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Horace - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).