hub
^((h aspiré))\œb\
The verdict
“hub” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,558) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,558
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaque tournante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hub · hub · French
hub · rank #19,558 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,558
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Holland
Nearest frequency peer: Holland (-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 « hub »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- harpe
harpe
80,446 corpus weight
- Hilton
Hilton
80,445 corpus weight
- Holland
Holland
80,444 corpus weight
- hub
hub
80,443 corpus weight
- hépatite
hépatite
80,442 corpus weight
- identitaires
identitaires
80,441 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hub » 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 | hub |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\œb\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hub »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hub is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hz", "hy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced ^((h aspiré))\œb\. Frequency #19,558 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
hub doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hz", "hy", "hum", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hub, spelled H-U-B.
Definition
- 1Plaque tournante.
- 2Plateformes d’échange d’une compagnie de transports routiers ou maritimes.
- 3Concentrateur, répartiteur (exemple hub USB).
- 4Point d’interconnexion de plusieurs sites, de plusieurs appareils numériques, etc. ; carrefour, échangeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les compagnies aériennes Ethiopian Airlines et Air Djibouti se sont associées avec le port de Djibouti afin de proposer un hub de fret aéro-maritime depuis l'aéroport de Djibouti.
Avec ce hub mobile plug & play, pas de question à se poser : l’appareil est multicompatible et ne nécessite aucun pilote à installer.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hub", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).