Which to use
“hide” and “home” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #47,373
- “hide” frequency rank
- #6,095
- “home” frequency rank
- 53468
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hide | home |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Cuir, peau (des animaux vivants). | Foyer, chez-soi. |
Where the eye mixes hide and home
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. hide and home follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses hide with home
A purely visual mix-up. hide (\haɪd\) and home (^((h aspiré))\om\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53468, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hide is recorded at frequency rank #47,373, classified as anoun, pronounced \haɪd\. home is at rank #6,095, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\om\.
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 53468, this pair ranks #140,526 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of hide vs home
Shared letters: eh. Private to "hide": di. Private to "home": mo.
"hide" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "home" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "hide" for "home" ever safe?
Frequency check: "hide" vs "home" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "hide" and "home" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "hide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "home" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #140,526 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "hide" and "home" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hedge vs hide". 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 #140,526 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.