hypermarché
^((h muet))\i.pɛʁ.maʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“hypermarché” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,084. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,084
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magasin de détail en libre-service d'une surface commerciale minimale de 2500 m².
Corpus desk
Index FR-hypermarche · hypermarché · French
hypermarché · rank #35,084 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,084
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH horizontaux
Nearest frequency peer: horizontaux (-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 « hypermarché »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hirondelles
hirondelles
64,920 corpus weight
- hollywoodien
hollywoodien
64,919 corpus weight
- horizontaux
horizontaux
64,918 corpus weight
- hypermarché
hypermarché
64,917 corpus weight
- Hz
Hz
64,916 corpus weight
- hécatombe
hécatombe
64,915 corpus weight
What this shows « hypermarché » 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 | hypermarché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\i.pɛʁ.maʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #35,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hypermarché »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around hypermarché (IPA ^((h muet))\i.pɛʁ.maʁ.ʃe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,084 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Magasin de détail en libre-service d'une surface commerciale minimale de 2500 m².".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for hypermarché, with forms such as "hhypermarché", "hpyermarché", and "hyeprmarché". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hypermarchés", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hypermarché, spelled H-Y-P-E-R-M-A-R-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Magasin de détail en libre-service d'une surface commerciale minimale de 2500 m².
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hypermarché appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hypermarché déroulait ses deux mille mètres carrés de nourriture et de produits déclinés pour chaque catégorie en une dizaine de marques.
Le crédit conso n'est plus en effet seulement l'affaire des filiales spécialisées des banques, des hypermarchés ou des constructeurs automobiles. De nouveaux acteurs sont apparus : les banques en ligne, notamment, qui désormais s'intéressent toutes à ce produit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhypermarché
- hpyermarché
- hyeprmarché
- hypemrarché
- hyperamrché
- hypermacrhé
- hypermarcché
- hypermarche
- hypermarchhé
- hypermarcéh
- hypermarhcé
- hypermarrché
- hypermmarché
- hypermraché
- hyperrmarché
- hyppermarché
- hypremarché
- hyypermarché
- yhpermarché
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hypermarché - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).