houx
^((h aspiré))\u\
The verdict
“houx” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,659
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre toujours vert, de la famille des aquifoliacées, dont les feuilles sont luisantes et armées de piquants et dont le fruit est une baie d’un très beau rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houx · houx · French
houx · rank #45,659 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,659
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH houillères
Nearest frequency peer: houillères (-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 « houx »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Hodgson
Hodgson
54,345 corpus weight
- homonymes
homonymes
54,344 corpus weight
- houillères
houillères
54,343 corpus weight
- houx
houx
54,342 corpus weight
- huchon
huchon
54,341 corpus weight
- hydrolyse
hydrolyse
54,340 corpus weight
What this shows « houx » 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 | houx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\u\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « houx »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around houx (IPA ^((h aspiré))\u\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,659 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Arbre toujours vert, de la famille des aquifoliacées, dont les feuilles sont luisantes et armées de piquants et dont le fruit est une baie d’un très beau rouge.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for houx, with forms such as "hhoux", "houxx", and "hoxu". 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, "hum", "how", "hui", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is houx, spelled H-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1Arbre toujours vert, de la famille des aquifoliacées, dont les feuilles sont luisantes et armées de piquants et dont le fruit est une baie d’un très beau rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how houx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les houx poussent dans les bois, dans les haies.
Planter des houx dans un jardin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhoux
- houxx
- hoxu
- huox
- ohux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of houx - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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