Hugo
\y.ɡo\
The verdict
“Hugo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,242. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,242
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]), surtout connu par l’écrivain Victor Hugo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hugo · Hugo · French
Hugo · rank #4,242 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,242
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habituellement
Nearest frequency peer: habituellement (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hugo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- habitudes
habitudes
95,761 corpus weight
- habituellem…
habituellement
95,760 corpus weight
- Hugo
Hugo
95,759 corpus weight
- incident
incident
95,758 corpus weight
- Irak
Irak
95,757 corpus weight
- jules
jules
95,756 corpus weight
What this shows « Hugo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Hugo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hugo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Hugo (IPA \y.ɡo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,242 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hugo, with forms such as "hguo", "hhugo", and "huggo". 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", "huh", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Hugo, spelled H-U-G-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté en France ^([Ins]), surtout connu par l’écrivain Victor Hugo.
- 2Nom de famille attesté en Afrique du Sud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hugo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au début de cette même année, un énorme charivari avait accueilli la pièce d'un tout jeune auteur. Paris en bruissait encore et il n’était pas de jour sans qu'on en dît pis que pendre ou la portât aux nues : Hernani, d'un certain Hugo.
La Maison de Victor Hugo, située place des Vosges, à Paris, consacre une exposition au peintre Georges Hugo (1868-1925), petit-fils de l’écrivain.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hguo
- hhugo
- huggo
- huog
- uhgo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hugo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).