huer

^((h aspiré))\y.e\

/^((h aspiré))\y.e\/ verb

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The verdict

“huer” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,925) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#42,925
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poursuivre le loup avec des huées.

Corpus desk

Index FR-huer · huer · French

huer · rank #42,925 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,925
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH honorifiques

Nearest frequency peer: honorifiques (-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 « huer »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « huer » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

huer vs hum
50% similar
huer vs hui
50% similar
huer vs hug
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for huer
PropertyValue
Headwordhuer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA^((h aspiré))\y.e\
Letters4
Frequency rank#42,925
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « huer »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).huerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « honorifiques » (#42,924), « hutu » (#42,926), « hydrographique » (#42,927). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « huer » est au #42,925. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for huer is neighbouring look-alikes ("hum", "hui", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced ^((h aspiré))\y.e\. Frequency #42,925 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for huer, with forms such as "hhuer", "huerr", and "hure". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hum", "hui", "hug", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is huer, spelled H-U-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poursuivre le loup avec des huées.
  2. 2
    Émettre des cris de dérision à l’encontre de quelqu’un pour marquer son opposition, son mécontentement.
  3. 3
    Pousser leur cri, en parlant de certains oiseaux, en particulier le héron, la chouette et le hibou.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how huer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Huer le loup.
  2. Il est à voir comment à Paris le pilori des grandes halles est artistement disposé pour contraindre le pilorié à montrer sa face à la foule, accourue pour le huer, l’injurier, remplir le vœu de la loi.

Synonyms

conspuer

This word in other languages

hoot(English)abuchear(Español)buhen(Deutsch)vaiar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhuer
  • huerr
  • hure
  • uher

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of huer - 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.

hhuer1huerr1hure2uher2
Edit distance from "huer"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "huer"?
"huer" is spelled H-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\y.e\.
What does "huer" mean?
As a verb, "huer" means: Poursuivre le loup avec des huées.
What words are commonly confused with "huer"?
"huer" is commonly confused with "hum", "hui", "hug". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "huer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "huer" is ^((h aspiré))\y.e\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "huer" come from?
"huer" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "huer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hutu#42,926Ibra#42,931Gunn#42,915frog#42,890

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list