Hz
The verdict
“Hz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,085) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,085
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole du hertz, unité de mesure de la fréquence dans le Système international.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hz · Hz · French
Hz · rank #35,085 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,085
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hypermarché
Nearest frequency peer: hypermarché (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Hz »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- 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
- hématome
hématome
64,914 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Hz » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Hz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #35,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Hz »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Hz is neighbouring look-alikes ("H", "ha", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #35,085 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole du hertz, unité de mesure de la fréquence dans le Système international.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Hz, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "H", "ha", "He", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Hz, spelled H-Z.
Definition
- 1Symbole du hertz, unité de mesure de la fréquence dans le Système international.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au delà de 10⁷ Hz, la masse des électrons est elle-même trop importante pour que ceux-ci puissent suivre l’excitation, et le matériau a alors un comportement diélectrique semblable à celui du vide.
On note une prédominance à l’emploi des réseaux alternatifs et à l’usage généralisé du triphasé 200 V/400 Hz.
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.