hydra
\ˈhy.dra\
The verdict
“hydra” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,122
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hydre, en particulier l'Hydre de Lerne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hydra · hydra · French
hydra · rank #34,122 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,122
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH HQ
Nearest frequency peer: HQ (-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 « hydra »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hoover
hoover
65,882 corpus weight
- hospices
hospices
65,881 corpus weight
- HQ
HQ
65,880 corpus weight
- hydra
hydra
65,879 corpus weight
- hébergeur
hébergeur
65,877 corpus weight
- hétéroclite
hétéroclite
65,876 corpus weight
What this shows « hydra » 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 | hydra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhy.dra\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hydra »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hydra (IPA \ˈhy.dra\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,122 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hydre, en particulier l'Hydre de Lerne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hydra, with forms such as "hdyra", "hhydra", and "hydar". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hydre", "hydrate", "HDR", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 hydra, spelled H-Y-D-R-A.
Definition
- 1Hydre, en particulier l'Hydre de Lerne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hydra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
quinquaginta atris immanis hiatibus Hydra intus habet sedem.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hdyra
- hhydra
- hydar
- hyddra
- hydrra
- hyrda
- hyydra
- yhdra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hydra - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).