hepvshrTell them apart

Quick tell: hep is a intj, hr is an onomatopoeia, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hep” is an intj and “hr” is an onomatopoeia - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,935
“hep” frequency rank
#25,352
“hr” frequency rank
73287
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hep hr
Definition Sert principalement à appeler ou interpeller quelqu’un. Variante de hrr.

Letter map: hep vs hr

Shared letters muted; letters that set hep and hr apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch
hep
2 ch
hr

Part-of-speech tell for hep / hr

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hep is anintj and hranonomatopoeia. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73287, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hep is recorded at frequency rank #47,935, classified as anintj, pronounced \ɛp\. hr is at rank #25,352, tagged as anonomatopoeia.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 73287, this pair ranks #40,998 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hep vs hr

Shared letters: h. Private to "hep": ep. Private to "hr": r.

"hep" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "hr" · 2 letters · shape CC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hep" for "hr" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hep" is an intj and "hr" an onomatopoeia, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "hep" or "hr" show up more?
"hr" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,352 in our French list, against #47,935 for "hep". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hep" and "hr".

  • Full dictionary entry for "hep" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hr" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,998 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hep" and "hr" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hae vs hep". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #40,998 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list