horloge
^((h muet))\ɔʁ.lɔʒ\
The verdict
“horloge” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,841. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,841
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument destiné à mesurer le temps et à indiquer l'heure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horloge · horloge · French
horloge · rank #7,841 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,841
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homo
Nearest frequency peer: homo (-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 « horloge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Haïti
Haïti
92,163 corpus weight
- HD
HD
92,162 corpus weight
- homo
homo
92,161 corpus weight
- horloge
horloge
92,160 corpus weight
- inauguration
inauguration
92,159 corpus weight
- indication
indication
92,158 corpus weight
What this shows « horloge » 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 | horloge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.lɔʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « horloge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around horloge (IPA ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.lɔʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,841 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for horloge, with forms such as "hhorloge", "holroge", and "horlgoe". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hormone", "horloges", "horloger", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 horloge, spelled H-O-R-L-O-G-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument destiné à mesurer le temps et à indiquer l'heure.
- 2Appareil muni d'un grand cadran à aiguilles placé dans un endroit apparent et destiné à marquer et à sonner les heures.
- 3Appareil horaire placé dans une gaine ou dans une boîte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horloge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une horloge à eau.
Une horloge à ombre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorloge
- holroge
- horlgoe
- horlloge
- horloeg
- horlogge
- horolge
- horrloge
- hrologe
- ohrloge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horloge - 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 "horloge", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).