hautain
^((h aspiré))\o.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“hautain” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,638
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui affecte la fierté et le dédain pour mieux marquer la distance entre soi et les autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hautain · hautain · French
hautain · rank #30,638 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,638
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harem
Nearest frequency peer: harem (-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 « hautain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- guyot
guyot
69,366 corpus weight
- Harcourt
Harcourt
69,365 corpus weight
- harem
harem
69,364 corpus weight
- hautain
hautain
69,363 corpus weight
- Hirsch
Hirsch
69,362 corpus weight
- Humphrey
Humphrey
69,360 corpus weight
What this shows « hautain » 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 | hautain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hautain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hautain (IPA ^((h aspiré))\o.tɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,638 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui affecte la fierté et le dédain pour mieux marquer la distance entre soi et les autres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hautain, with forms such as "ahutain", "hatuain", and "hauatin". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "humain", "hautaine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hautain, spelled H-A-U-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui affecte la fierté et le dédain pour mieux marquer la distance entre soi et les autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hautain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juif, continua le hautain vieillard, écoute-moi : il ne sied pas à notre dignité d’avoir avec toi un long entretien […]
Cette Gourguin était, comme l'on dit chez nous, un vrai chat noir, qui n’avait que la peau et les os ; toutefois, un grand feu d'esprit, et les plus beaux yeux, avec des manières hautaines : dangereuse, artificieuse, accusée de beaucoup de noirceurs ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahutain
- hatuain
- hauatin
- hautainn
- hautani
- hautian
- hauttain
- hhautain
- huatain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hautain - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hautain", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).