human
\huˈmaːn\
The verdict
“human” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,784
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-human · human · French
human · rank #11,784 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,784
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hui
Nearest frequency peer: hui (-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 « human »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- généralisée
généralisée
88,220 corpus weight
- handball
handball
88,219 corpus weight
- hui
hui
88,218 corpus weight
- human
human
88,217 corpus weight
- imbéciles
imbéciles
88,216 corpus weight
- imiter
imiter
88,215 corpus weight
What this shows « human » 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 | human |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \huˈmaːn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « human »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around human (IPA \huˈmaːn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,784 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Humain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for human, with forms such as "hhuman", "hmuan", and "huamn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "hume", "humus", "hymen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is human, spelled H-U-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Humain.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhuman
- hmuan
- huamn
- humann
- humman
- humna
- uhman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of human - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).