hymen
\i.mɛn\
The verdict
“hymen” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,371
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membrane qui obstrue partiellement le vagin des nouveau-nés de sexe féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hymen · hymen · French
hymen · rank #37,371 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,371
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hydrater
Nearest frequency peer: hydrater (-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 « hymen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hurricanes
hurricanes
62,633 corpus weight
- hybrid
hybrid
62,632 corpus weight
- hydrater
hydrater
62,631 corpus weight
- hymen
hymen
62,630 corpus weight
- hâtive
hâtive
62,629 corpus weight
- hépatiques
hépatiques
62,628 corpus weight
What this shows « hymen » 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 | hymen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hymen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hymen (IPA \i.mɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,371 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hymen, with forms such as "hhymen", "hmyen", and "hyemn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "hype", "hymne", "hymnes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hymen, spelled H-Y-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Membrane qui obstrue partiellement le vagin des nouveau-nés de sexe féminin.
- 2Pellicule de la corolle d’une fleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hymen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pline et Guillemeau, son traducteur, ne croyaient à l’existence de l’hymen que dans des cas très-rares, et même Pline le regardait comme de mauvais présage pour celle qui le portait.
Mais si ce signe de virginité est enlevé depuis longtemps , et qu’il n’ait pas laissé de traces de son existence, on a à peser les circonstances suivantes : l’hymen manque quelquefois naturellement, et alors les autres signes physiques et moraux de la virginité n’en subsistent pas moins, et sont assez caractéristiques pour qu’on puisse s’en aider.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhymen
- hmyen
- hyemn
- hymenn
- hymmen
- hyymen
- yhmen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hymen - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).