houiller
^((h aspiré))\u.je\
The verdict
“houiller” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,827
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à la houille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houiller · houiller · French
houiller · rank #41,827 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,827
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH illustratrice
Nearest frequency peer: illustratrice (+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 « houiller »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hindoue
hindoue
58,177 corpus weight
- hippiques
hippiques
58,176 corpus weight
- houiller
houiller
58,174 corpus weight
- illustratri…
illustratrice
58,173 corpus weight
- imaginées
imaginées
58,172 corpus weight
- immorale
immorale
58,171 corpus weight
What this shows « houiller » 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 | houiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\u.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « houiller »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around houiller (IPA ^((h aspiré))\u.je\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,827 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for houiller, with forms such as "hhouiller", "hoiuller", and "houilelr". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "houilles", "houillères", "houille", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is houiller, spelled H-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à la houille.
- 2Qui contient de la houille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how houiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il convient donc de redonner à ces traitements leur place dans l’industrie houillère dans la mesure où ils participent à la mise en valeur du produit brut.
Soyons sûrs que les premiers des gens de lignage qui découvrirent sous leurs idylliques, mais peu productifs, champs et pâturages la richesse houillère en éprouvèrent le même plaisir que le fermier du Texas ou le prince arabe qui s'avèrent de nos jours possesseurs d'un puits de pétrole.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhouiller
- hoiuller
- houilelr
- houiler
- houillerr
- houillre
- houliler
- huoiller
- ohuiller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of houiller - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).