hautains
^((h aspiré))\o.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“hautains” is uncommon French (frequency #66,790 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,790
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de hautain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hautains · hautains · French
hautains · rank #66,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,790
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harmonisée
Nearest frequency peer: harmonisée (-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 « hautains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- handicaper
handicaper
33,214 corpus weight
- happens
happens
33,213 corpus weight
- harmonisée
harmonisée
33,212 corpus weight
- hautains
hautains
33,211 corpus weight
- hellènes
hellènes
33,209 corpus weight
- hickey
hickey
33,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hautains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hautains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hautains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hautains is uncommon French at frequency #66,790 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\o.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de hautain.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hautains, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hautains, spelled H-A-U-T-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de hautain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hautains appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marchant d’un pas ferme, l’homme au vieil ulster d’un roux pisseux coudoyait presque ceux dont, quelques jours plus tôt, il avait été l’égal — des hommes bien vêtus, frais et dispos à la mine fleurie — et des femmes exquises, délicieusement toilettées, extravagamment surchargées de fourrures et de bijoux, aux visages radieux et aux yeux pleins de mystère…
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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