hy
\ɦəi\
The verdict
“hy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,944) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,944
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronom personnel sujet masculin de la troisième personne du singulier : il.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hy · hy · French
hy · rank #47,944 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,944
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Houda
Nearest frequency peer: Houda (-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 « hy »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- homologués
homologués
52,060 corpus weight
- hormonale
hormonale
52,059 corpus weight
- Houda
Houda
52,058 corpus weight
- hy
hy
52,057 corpus weight
- hydratante
hydratante
52,056 corpus weight
- Hypertrophie
Hypertrophie
52,055 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hy » 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 | hy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ɦəi\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #47,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hy »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hy is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hz", "hype", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \ɦəi\. Frequency #47,944 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
hy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hz", "hype", "Hyde", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hy, spelled H-Y.
Definition
- 1Pronom personnel sujet masculin de la troisième personne du singulier : il.
- 2Pronom personnel sujet masculin de la troisième personne du singulier : il.
- 3Pronom personnel sujet masculin de la troisième personne du singulier : il.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ek het die boek gelees, maar hy is baie moeilik om te volg.
Synonyms
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.