huîtres
\ɥitʁ\
The verdict
“huîtres” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,732. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,732
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de huître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huitres · huîtres · French
huîtres · rank #17,732 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,732
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hivernale
Nearest frequency peer: hivernale (-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 « huîtres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hero
hero
82,272 corpus weight
- het
het
82,271 corpus weight
- hivernale
hivernale
82,270 corpus weight
- huîtres
huîtres
82,269 corpus weight
- inaction
inaction
82,267 corpus weight
- incomplète
incomplète
82,266 corpus weight
What this shows « huîtres » 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 | huîtres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɥitʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « huîtres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around huîtres (IPA \ɥitʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,732 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de huître.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for huîtres, with forms such as "hhuîtres", "huitres", and "hutîres". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "huttes", "huître", "hêtres", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is huîtres, spelled H-U-Î-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de huître.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how huîtres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les biens dominicalement bourgeois que mon caddie rapporte à la maison – huîtres, poulet rôti, brillat-savarin double crème, tarte aux mirabelles – satisferaient l’amante, épouse et grand-mère A.M., qui, nous félicitant de « ne pas avoir traîné », accentuerait le bonheur de la retrouver.
Le gérant leur apporta des huîtres panées et des piments shishito.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhuîtres
- huitres
- hutîres
- huîrtes
- huîters
- huîtress
- huîtrres
- huîtrse
- huîttres
- hîutres
- uhîtres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of huîtres - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "huîtres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).