hue
The verdict
“hue” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,965 in French word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #21,965
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mot dont se servent les charretiers pour faire avancer les chevaux, ou pour les faire tourner à droite.
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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hue is 3 letters long, classified as an interjection. Corpus data places it at rank #21,965 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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.
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Using “hue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Hz” - see the side-by-side comparison. hue vs Hz
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.