hydrocarbure
\i.dʁɔ.kaʁ.byʁ\
The verdict
“hydrocarbure” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,583. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,583
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Molécules organiques formées de carbone et d’hydrogène seulement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hydrocarbure · hydrocarbure · French
hydrocarbure · rank #48,583 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,583
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Huston
Nearest frequency peer: Huston (-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 « hydrocarbure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- houleuse
houleuse
51,421 corpus weight
- Huston
Huston
51,419 corpus weight
- hydrocarbure
hydrocarbure
51,418 corpus weight
- hypoglycémie
hypoglycémie
51,417 corpus weight
- hésiterai
hésiterai
51,416 corpus weight
- hétéroclites
hétéroclites
51,415 corpus weight
What this shows « hydrocarbure » 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 | hydrocarbure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dʁɔ.kaʁ.byʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #48,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hydrocarbure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around hydrocarbure (IPA \i.dʁɔ.kaʁ.byʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,583 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Molécules organiques formées de carbone et d’hydrogène seulement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for hydrocarbure, with forms such as "hdyrocarbure", "hhydrocarbure", and "hyddrocarbure". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hydrocarbures", 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 hydrocarbure, spelled H-Y-D-R-O-C-A-R-B-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Molécules organiques formées de carbone et d’hydrogène seulement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hydrocarbure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hydrocarbures ainsi que les glucosines déterminent indirectement cette réaction, car ils donnent naissance à des sucres lorsqu’on les traite à l’acide sulfurique.
Les hydrocarbures imprègnent les sables généralement disposés en lentilles, les argiles et les marnes jouent le rôle d’isolants enfermant les masses à l’intérieur desquelles s’est effectuée la fermentation du sapropel.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hdyrocarbure
- hhydrocarbure
- hyddrocarbure
- hydorcarbure
- hydrcoarbure
- hydroacrbure
- hydrocabrure
- hydrocarbbure
- hydrocarbrue
- hydrocarbuer
- hydrocarburre
- hydrocarrbure
- hydrocarubre
- hydroccarbure
- hydrocrabure
- hydrrocarbure
- hyrdocarbure
- hyydrocarbure
- yhdrocarbure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hydrocarbure - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).