Haïti

\a.i.ti\

/\a.i.ti\/ name

The verdict

“Haïti” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,838. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,838
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays situé dans la partie ouest de l’île d’Hispaniola, ayant pour capitale Port-au-Prince. — Note d’usage : Le h initial est officiellement muet, mais on trouve parfois ce mot avec un h aspiré.

Corpus desk

Index FR-haiti · Haïti · French

Haïti · rank #7,838 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,838
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH gênant

Nearest frequency peer: gênant (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Haïti »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Haïti » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Haïti vs hit
20% similar
Haïti vs hat
40% similar
Haïti vs haut
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Haïti
PropertyValue
HeadwordHaïti
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.i.ti\
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,838
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Haïti »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Haïtise place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gênant » (#7,837), « HD » (#7,839), « grippe » (#7,836). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « Haïti » est au #7,838. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Haïti (IPA \a.i.ti\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,838 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays situé dans la partie ouest de l’île d’Hispaniola, ayant pour capitale Port-au-Prince. — Note d’usage : Le h initial est officiellement muet, mais on trouve parfois ce mot avec un h aspiré.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Haïti, with forms such as "ahïti", "hatïi", and "haïit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hit", "hat", "haut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Haïti, spelled H-A-Ï-T-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pays situé dans la partie ouest de l’île d’Hispaniola, ayant pour capitale Port-au-Prince. — Note d’usage : Le h initial est officiellement muet, mais on trouve parfois ce mot avec un h aspiré.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Haïti appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’espère parvenir à prouver cette nécessité morale, quand j’arriverai à parler du rétablissement des relations entre la France et Haïti, après dix années de séparation.
  2. – Il m’intéresse beaucoup plus que vous ne le pouvez supposer, ce pauvre soldat qui devient Président de République et qui, singeant Napoléon, se fait proclamer Empereur d’Haïti.

Synonyms

perle des AntillesRépublique d’HaïtiSaint-Domingue

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ahïti
  • hatïi
  • haïit
  • haïtti
  • hhaïti
  • hïati

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Haïti - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ahïti2hatïi2haïit2haïtti1hhaïti1hïati2
Edit distance from "Haïti"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Haïti"?
"Haïti" is spelled H-A-Ï-T-I. The IPA pronunciation is \a.i.ti\.
What does "Haïti" mean?
As a proper noun, "Haïti" means: Pays situé dans la partie ouest de l’île d’Hispaniola, ayant pour capitale Port-au-Prince. — Note d’usage : Le h initial est officiellement muet, mais on trouve parfois ce mot avec un h aspiré.
What words are commonly confused with "Haïti"?
"Haïti" is commonly confused with "hit", "hat", "haut". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Haïti"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Haïti" is \a.i.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Haïti" come from?
"Haïti" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Haïti", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list