Houellebecq
\wɛl.bɛk\
The verdict
“Houellebecq” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,805
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu via Michel Houellebecq, écrivain français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houellebecq · Houellebecq · French
Houellebecq · rank #29,805 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,805
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hospitalisée
Nearest frequency peer: hospitalisée (-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 « Houellebecq »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- heurtent
heurtent
70,199 corpus weight
- hippies
hippies
70,198 corpus weight
- hospitalisée
hospitalisée
70,197 corpus weight
- Houellebecq
Houellebecq
70,196 corpus weight
- huguenots
huguenots
70,195 corpus weight
- humiliations
humiliations
70,194 corpus weight
What this shows « Houellebecq » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Houellebecq |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wɛl.bɛk\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Houellebecq »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Houellebecq (IPA \wɛl.bɛk\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,805 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connu via Michel Houellebecq, écrivain français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Houellebecq, with forms such as "hhouellebecq", "hoeullebecq", and "houelebecq". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Houellebecq, spelled H-O-U-E-L-L-E-B-E-C-Q.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu via Michel Houellebecq, écrivain français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Houellebecq appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Michel Houellebecq est interviewé en exclusivité.
Franz, mon galeriste, voudrait un écrivain pour le catalogue. Il a pensé à Houellebecq.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhouellebecq
- hoeullebecq
- houelebecq
- houelelbecq
- houellbeecq
- houellebbecq
- houellebceq
- houellebeccq
- houellebecqq
- houellebeqc
- houelleebcq
- houlelebecq
- huoellebecq
- ohuellebecq
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Houellebecq - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).