Which to use
“home” and “houx” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,095
- “home” frequency rank
- #45,659
- “houx” frequency rank
- 51754
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | home | houx |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Foyer, chez-soi. | Arbre toujours vert, de la famille des aquifoliacées, dont les feuilles sont luisantes et armées de piquants et dont le fruit est une baie d’un très beau rouge. |
Where the eye mixes home and houx
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. home (CVCV) and houx (CVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: home vs houx
A purely visual mix-up. home (^((h aspiré))\om\) and houx (^((h aspiré))\u\) 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 51754, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
home is recorded at frequency rank #6,095, classified as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\om\. houx is at rank #45,659, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\u\.
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 51754, this pair ranks #152,715 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of home vs houx
Shared letters: ho. Private to "home": em. Private to "houx": ux.
"home" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "houx" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "home" and "houx" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "home" or "houx"?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "home" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "houx" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #152,715 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "home" and "houx" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Houda vs houx". 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 #152,715 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.