hue
The verdict
“hue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,965) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,965
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot dont se servent les charretiers pour faire avancer les chevaux, ou pour les faire tourner à droite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hue · hue · French
hue · rank #21,965 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,965
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH holly
Nearest frequency peer: holly (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hue”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- handicapée
handicapée
78,039 corpus weight
- Hannibal
Hannibal
78,038 corpus weight
- holly
holly
78,037 corpus weight
- hue
hue
78,036 corpus weight
- humoristes
humoristes
78,035 corpus weight
- hôtelier
hôtelier
78,034 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hue” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | hue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hue” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hue is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hz", "hy", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #21,965 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hue in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hz", "hy", "hum", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hue, spelled H-U-E.
Definition
- 1Mot dont se servent les charretiers pour faire avancer les chevaux, ou pour les faire tourner à droite.
- 2Mot dont se servent les enfants pour faire avancer leur jouet représentant un cheval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un peu plus tard, il avait appris à crier très fort : « Heulle ! Heulle ! » derrière les vaches aux croupes maigres, et : « Hue ! Dia ! » et « Harrié ! » derrière les chevaux au labour, à tenir la fourche à foin et à bâtir les clôtures de pieux.
« Hue-dada ! Hue-dada ! » hurlait Bonbon en faisan claquer ses deux pieds et le fer de la pelle.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "hue" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Hz". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #21,965 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.