hymne
\imn\
The verdict
“hymne” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,559
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hymne · hymne · French
hymne · rank #8,559 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,559
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hydrogène
Nearest frequency peer: hydrogène (-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 « hymne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- honnêtes
honnêtes
91,445 corpus weight
- honteux
honteux
91,444 corpus weight
- hydrogène
hydrogène
91,443 corpus weight
- hymne
hymne
91,442 corpus weight
- hôtes
hôtes
91,441 corpus weight
- impliquant
impliquant
91,440 corpus weight
What this shows « hymne » 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 | hymne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \imn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hymne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hymne (IPA \imn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,559 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hymne, with forms such as "hhymne", "hmyne", and "hymmne". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "hype", "hymnes", "home", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hymne, spelled H-Y-M-N-E.
Definition
- 1Chant.
- 2Poème chanté.
- 3Cantique.
- 4Chant solennel composé pour célébrer la patrie, ses défenseurs, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hymne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qui oserait blasphémer contre cette sublime épopée, qui commence à Valmy, et qui se déroule, en traits de feu, jusqu’à la sombre catastrophe de Waterloo ; épopée qui débute par un hymne de triomphe, et qui se ferme sous les plaintes d'une douloureuse élégie ?
Des hourras ponctuèrent le discours du Prince, qui, à la fin, entonna une hymne que tous les hommes reprirent avec lui : « Ein fester Burg ist unser Gott ! C’est un rempart que notre Dieu ! »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhymne
- hmyne
- hymmne
- hymnne
- hynme
- hyymne
- yhmne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hymne - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hymne", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).