hantise
^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.tiz\
The verdict
“hantise” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,718. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,718
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fréquentation, commerce familier chez quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hantise · hantise · French
hantise · rank #33,718 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,718
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH gérante
Nearest frequency peer: gérante (-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 « hantise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gratifiant
gratifiant
66,286 corpus weight
- gravel
gravel
66,285 corpus weight
- gérante
gérante
66,284 corpus weight
- hantise
hantise
66,283 corpus weight
- harcelée
harcelée
66,282 corpus weight
- hogan
hogan
66,280 corpus weight
What this shows « hantise » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hantise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.tiz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hantise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around hantise (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.tiz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,718 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for hantise, with forms such as "ahntise", "hanitse", and "hanntise". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hâtive", "hante", "hantée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hantise, spelled H-A-N-T-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Fréquentation, commerce familier chez quelqu’un.
- 2Obsession, souvenir involontaire ou obstiné, mêlé de peur.
- 3Fait pour un lieu d’être hanté par des revenants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hantise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La hantise d’un tel ne vaut rien.
[…], chacun est bien obligé de reconnaître pour soi comme pour le monde, l'exceptionnelle gravité de l'heure, gravité qui même au léger pays de France ne saurait cette fois se résoudre aux chansons et dont on ne réussit plus à chasser définitivement la hantise par un insouciant haussement d'épaules, un bridge, un souper joyeux ou un « ouikenne » aux sport…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahntise
- hanitse
- hanntise
- hanties
- hantisse
- hantsie
- hanttise
- hatnise
- hhantise
- hnatise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hantise - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).