hydre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,859
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
hydre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Serpent fabuleux à plusieurs têtes qui renaissent dès qu’on lui en coupe une. Pronounced \idʁ\. Often confused with hype and hymne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \idʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hydre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \idʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,859 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for hydre, with forms such as "hdyre", "hhydre", and "hyddre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "hype", "hymne", "hyène", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hydre, spelled H-Y-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Serpent fabuleux à plusieurs têtes qui renaissent dès qu’on lui en coupe une.
- 2Ennemi dangereux, menace.
- 3Meuble représentant l’animal fabuleux du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée comme un corps de serpent à la queue entortillée, doté d’ailes de chauve-souris, de deux pattes arrière et muni de plusieurs têtes dont il faut préciser le nombre dans le blasonnement (généralement c’est sept).
- 4Reptile ophidien correspondant présentement à une section des hydrophides, ou serpents d’eau.
- 5Genre de polypes, où l’on distingue l’hydre verte de Linné. → voir polype d’eau douce
- 6Plante du genre cornifle (Ceratophyllum demersum, L.) (cératophyllées).
- 7Hydre hydraulique : machine qui, au moyen d’un puits ou d’une petite source, procure une chute d’eau assez considérable pour être utilisée.
- 8Pierre philosophale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hdyre,hhydre,hyddre,hyder,hydrre,hyrde,hyydre,yhdre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hydre
Misspelling Variants of "hydre"
Frequency rank: #37,859 in French
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