hangouts
\hæŋ.aʊts\
The verdict
“hangouts” is uncommon French (frequency #84,863 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,863
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de hangout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hangouts · hangouts · French
hangouts · rank #84,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,863
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 109,908
- PHOTO-FINISH haku
Nearest frequency peer: haku (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hangouts”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- gélule
gélule
15,141 corpus weight
- gémonies
gémonies
15,140 corpus weight
- haku
haku
15,139 corpus weight
- hangouts
hangouts
15,138 corpus weight
- harmonisent
harmonisent
15,137 corpus weight
- Hathor
Hathor
15,136 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hangouts” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hangouts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hæŋ.aʊts\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hangouts” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hangouts is uncommon French at frequency #84,863 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hæŋ.aʊts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hangout.".
hangouts has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hangouts, spelled H-A-N-G-O-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hangout.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.