hautbois
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,854
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
hautbois is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument à vent, de perce conique et à anche double, de sonorités très variées (puissant et sonore ou doux et charmeur, clair et nasillard ou plein de rondeur et de chaleur). Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\o.bwɑ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hautbois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.bwɑ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hautbois is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\o.bwɑ\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,854 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for hautbois, with forms such as "ahutbois", "hatubois", and "haubtois". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hautbois, spelled H-A-U-T-B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument à vent, de perce conique et à anche double, de sonorités très variées (puissant et sonore ou doux et charmeur, clair et nasillard ou plein de rondeur et de chaleur).
- 2Celle ou celui qui joue du hautbois.
- 3Des jeux de l’orgue.
- 4Tuyau mélodique d’une cornemuse.
- 5Synonyme de sureau noir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahutbois,hatubois,haubtois,hautbbois,hautbios,hautboiss,hautbosi,hautobis,hauttbois,hhautbois,huatbois
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Misspelling Variants of "hautbois"
Frequency rank: #37,854 in French
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Nearby French words
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