hormone
^((h muet))\ɔʁ.mɔn\
The verdict
“hormone” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,344
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Molécule messagère véhiculée par le sang ou la sève qui agit à distance de son site de production par fixation sur des récepteurs spécifiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hormone · hormone · French
hormone · rank #21,344 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,344
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hoffman
Nearest frequency peer: Hoffman (-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 « hormone »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hante
hante
78,660 corpus weight
- hijab
hijab
78,659 corpus weight
- Hoffman
Hoffman
78,658 corpus weight
- hormone
hormone
78,657 corpus weight
- housse
housse
78,656 corpus weight
- hypertension
hypertension
78,655 corpus weight
What this shows « hormone » 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 | hormone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.mɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hormone »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around hormone (IPA ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.mɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,344 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for hormone, with forms such as "hhormone", "homrone", and "hormmone". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Horne", "horloge", "harmony", and more, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hormone, spelled H-O-R-M-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Molécule messagère véhiculée par le sang ou la sève qui agit à distance de son site de production par fixation sur des récepteurs spécifiques.
- 2Herbicide qui agit sur la plante à la manière de ces molécules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hormone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hormones interviennent dans de nombreux processus, dont la reproduction, la différenciation cellulaire, l'homéostasie, ou encore la régulation des rythmes chronobiologiques.
Une autre méthode consiste à tremper le plant préparé dans une solution d’hormone de bouturage, telle que l'Exubérone® qui contient 4 g/L d’acide β-indole acétique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhormone
- homrone
- hormmone
- hormnoe
- hormoen
- hormonne
- horomne
- horrmone
- hromone
- ohrmone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hormone - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).