hurle
^((h aspiré))\yʁl\
The verdict
“hurle” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,282. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,282
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de hurler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hurle · hurle · French
hurle · rank #14,282 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,282
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH humilier
Nearest frequency peer: humilier (-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 « hurle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- HLM
HLM
85,722 corpus weight
- horizontale
horizontale
85,721 corpus weight
- humilier
humilier
85,720 corpus weight
- hurle
hurle
85,719 corpus weight
- IBM
IBM
85,718 corpus weight
- inaccessible
inaccessible
85,717 corpus weight
What this shows « hurle » 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 | hurle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\yʁl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hurle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hurle (IPA ^((h aspiré))\yʁl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,282 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hurle, with forms such as "hhurle", "hrule", and "hulre". 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, "hurt", "hutte", "hurler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 hurle, spelled H-U-R-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de hurler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de hurler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de hurler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de hurler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de hurler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hurle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout s’étale en violence, les formes, les machines, le minium qui explose, le bleu qui hurle, les casques jaunes des ouvriers qui puceronnent sur les flancs d’un méthanier en construction.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhurle
- hrule
- hulre
- hurel
- hurlle
- hurrle
- uhrle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hurle - 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 "hurle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).