hypocrite
^((h muet))\i.pɔ.kʁit\
The verdict
“hypocrite” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,013
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne faisant preuve d’hypocrisie, qui affecte un air de vertu, de bonté, de soumission ou de piété.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hypocrite · hypocrite · French
hypocrite · rank #10,013 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,013
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hurler
Nearest frequency peer: hurler (-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 « hypocrite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Hassan
Hassan
89,991 corpus weight
- hauteurs
hauteurs
89,990 corpus weight
- hurler
hurler
89,989 corpus weight
- hypocrite
hypocrite
89,988 corpus weight
- ibn
ibn
89,987 corpus weight
- importations
importations
89,986 corpus weight
What this shows « hypocrite » 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 | hypocrite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\i.pɔ.kʁit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hypocrite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around hypocrite (IPA ^((h muet))\i.pɔ.kʁit\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,013 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne faisant preuve d’hypocrisie, qui affecte un air de vertu, de bonté, de soumission ou de piété.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for hypocrite, with forms such as "hhypocrite", "hpyocrite", and "hyopcrite". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hypocrites", "hypocrisie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 hypocrite, spelled H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne faisant preuve d’hypocrisie, qui affecte un air de vertu, de bonté, de soumission ou de piété.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hypocrite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’est-il pas raisonnable de penser que les gens qui ne boivent jamais de vin, naïfs ou systématiques, sont des imbéciles ou des hypocrites […] des hypocrites, c’est-à-dire des gourmands honteux, des fanfarons de sobriété, buvant en cachette et ayant quelque vice occulte ? Un homme qui ne boit que de l’eau a un secret à cacher à ses semblables.
— Tu ne saurais croire, reprenait-elle, combien ils m’ont rendue mauvaise. Ils ont fait de moi une hypocrite et une menteuse… Ils m’ont étouffée dans leur douceur bourgeoise, et je ne m’explique pas comment il y a encore du sang dans mes veines… J’ai baissé les yeux, j’ai eu comme eux un visage morne et imbécile, j’ai mené leur vie morte. Quand tu m’as vu…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhypocrite
- hpyocrite
- hyopcrite
- hypcorite
- hypoccrite
- hypocirte
- hypocriet
- hypocritte
- hypocrrite
- hypocrtie
- hyporcite
- hyppocrite
- hyypocrite
- yhpocrite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hypocrite - 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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