Which to use
“heures” and “huées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #347
- “heures” frequency rank
- #41,331
- “huées” frequency rank
- 41678
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | heures | huées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Heures canoniales. | Pluriel de huée. |
Where the eye mixes heures and huées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. heures runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against huées's 5 (CVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between heures and huées
A purely visual mix-up. heures (^((h muet))\œʁ\) and huées (^((h aspiré))\y.e\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41678, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
heures is recorded at frequency rank #347, classified as anoun, pronounced ^((h muet))\œʁ\. huées is at rank #41,331, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\y.e\.
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 41678, this pair ranks #231,297 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of heures vs huées
Shared letters: ehsu. Private to "heures": r. Private to "huées": é.
"heures" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "huées" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- heures ← ehures · herues · heuers · heuress · heurres · heurse · hheures · hueres
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "heures" for "huées" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "heures" or "huées" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "heures" and "huées" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "heures" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "huées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #231,297 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "heures" and "huées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "huées vs huttes". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #231,297 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.