horde
^((h aspiré))\ɔʁd\
The verdict
“horde” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,642
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tribu nomade d’Asie centrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horde · horde · French
horde · rank #16,642 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,642
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hypocrites
Nearest frequency peer: hypocrites (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “horde”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hec
hec
83,362 corpus weight
- Herman
Herman
83,361 corpus weight
- horde
horde
83,359 corpus weight
- hypocrites
hypocrites
83,358 corpus weight
- héberger
héberger
83,357 corpus weight
- imaginais
imaginais
83,356 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “horde” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | horde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “horde” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around horde (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɔʁd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,642 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for horde, with forms such as "hhorde", "hodre", and "hordde". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hors", "hôte", "Hyde", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is horde, spelled H-O-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Tribu nomade d’Asie centrale.
- 2Troupe nombreuse d’hommes qui vivent en société, mais sans avoir d’établissement fixe.
- 3Peuplade ou groupement d’hommes errants.
- 4Groupement humain temporaire et instable.
- 5Troupe d’hommes indisciplinés, qui se plaisent au carnage, à la dévastation, etc.
- 6Groupe de personnes indisciplinées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gros des troupes était une horde de barbares dans toute la force du terme. C’était de ces figures étranges qui avaient parcouru la Gaule au temps d’Attila et de Chlodowig.
C'est ainsi que, dans l'Antiquité, les riches vallées du Nil et de l’Euphrate (Mésopotamie) furent toujours convoitées par des hordes conquérantes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorde
- hodre
- hordde
- hored
- horrde
- hrode
- ohrde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horde - 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.
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 "horde", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "horde" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "hors". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #16,642 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "H" letter cohort. H–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.