hull
\hʌl\
The verdict
“hull” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,218) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,218
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écosser (petits pois, haricots, fèves), écaler (noix), décortiquer (riz, graine), monder (orge, noisettes)
Corpus desk
Index FR-hull · hull · French
hull · rank #18,218 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,218
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH huis
Nearest frequency peer: huis (-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 « hull »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- head
head
81,786 corpus weight
- Helena
Helena
81,785 corpus weight
- huis
huis
81,784 corpus weight
- hull
hull
81,783 corpus weight
- humeurs
humeurs
81,782 corpus weight
- Hypnose
Hypnose
81,781 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hull » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | hull |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hʌl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hull »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hull is neighbouring look-alikes ("hum", "Hut", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \hʌl\. Frequency #18,218 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for hull, with forms such as "hhull", "hlul", and "hul". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hum", "Hut", "hunt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hull, spelled H-U-L-L.
Definition
- 1Écosser (petits pois, haricots, fèves), écaler (noix), décortiquer (riz, graine), monder (orge, noisettes)
- 2Équeuter (fraise, cerise).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhull
- hlul
- hul
- uhll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hull - 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 "hull", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).