hantait
^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“hantait” is uncommon French (frequency #68,335 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,335
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de hanter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hantait · hantait · French
hantait · rank #68,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,335
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hannetons
Nearest frequency peer: hannetons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « hantait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Habyarimana
Habyarimana
31,670 corpus weight
- hallucinants
hallucinants
31,669 corpus weight
- Hanlon
Hanlon
31,668 corpus weight
- hannetons
hannetons
31,667 corpus weight
- hantait
hantait
31,666 corpus weight
- heptathlon
heptathlon
31,663 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hantait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hantait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hantait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hantait is uncommon French at frequency #68,335 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de hanter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hantait in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hantait, spelled H-A-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de hanter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hantait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il connaissait son « monsieur Noël » ; jadis n’accompagnait-il pas son jeune maître lorsque celui-ci hantait les abords du château de Sellignan, dénichant les oiseaux, déboulant les garennes, déhuchant les filles ?
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.
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