hp
The verdict
“hp” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,671) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,671
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du horsepower, le cheval-vapeur anglo-saxon, dont les diverses définitions vont de 75 m kgf/s à 746 W.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hp · hp · French
hp · rank #9,671 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,671
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homosexuel
Nearest frequency peer: homosexuel (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « hp »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- greffe
greffe
90,333 corpus weight
- Hollandais
Hollandais
90,332 corpus weight
- homosexuel
homosexuel
90,331 corpus weight
- hp
hp
90,330 corpus weight
- impacts
impacts
90,328 corpus weight
- impossibili…
impossibilité
90,327 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hp » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | hp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hp »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hp is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hs", "hr", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #9,671 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du horsepower, le cheval-vapeur anglo-saxon, dont les diverses définitions vont de 75 m kgf/s à 746 W.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hp in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hs", "hr", "HQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hp, spelled H-P.
Definition
- 1Symbole du horsepower, le cheval-vapeur anglo-saxon, dont les diverses définitions vont de 75 m kgf/s à 746 W.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 hp = 550 ft lbf/s = 745,699 871 582 270 22 W (exactement)
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.