Horus
\ɔ.ʁys\
The verdict
“Horus” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,344. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,344
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom grec de Hor, dieu égyptien à tête de faucon, dit Horus le jeune, ou l’enfant, car il est le fils d’Osiris et d’Isis, et le neveu d’Horus l’Ancien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horus · Horus · French
Horus · rank #38,344 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,344
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homeland
Nearest frequency peer: homeland (-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 « Horus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hivernage
hivernage
61,660 corpus weight
- hiérarchies
hiérarchies
61,659 corpus weight
- homeland
homeland
61,658 corpus weight
- Horus
Horus
61,657 corpus weight
- Howe
Howe
61,655 corpus weight
- Huguette
Huguette
61,654 corpus weight
What this shows « Horus » 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 | Horus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Horus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Horus (IPA \ɔ.ʁys\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,344 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom grec de Hor, dieu égyptien à tête de faucon, dit Horus le jeune, ou l’enfant, car il est le fils d’Osiris et d’Isis, et le neveu d’Horus l’Ancien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Horus, with forms such as "hhorus", "horrus", and "horsu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hou", "hour", "houx", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Horus, spelled H-O-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nom grec de Hor, dieu égyptien à tête de faucon, dit Horus le jeune, ou l’enfant, car il est le fils d’Osiris et d’Isis, et le neveu d’Horus l’Ancien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Horus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Horus, dis-je, se met à pleurer et à se plaindre parce qu'un serpent, envoyé par Set, vient de le piquer. Isis accourt à ses cris. Elle console son jeune enfant, lui dit de prendre courage, et lui enseigne le moyen de guérir la morsure venimeuse en la suçant.
Le scénario du musée s’articule autour du thème principal, qui est le mythe d’Isis, d’Osiris et du conflit entre Horus et Set, en plus d’éclairer un groupe de sujets tels que : L’histoire de la ville antique de Bouto, l’une des anciennes capitales égyptiennes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorus
- horrus
- horsu
- horuss
- hrous
- ohrus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Horus - 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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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 (6 here; floor ≥5).