Hauterive
\ot.ʁiv\
The verdict
“Hauterive” is uncommon French (frequency #69,137 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,137
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Allier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hauterive · Hauterive · French
Hauterive · rank #69,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,137
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Géricault
Nearest frequency peer: Géricault (-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 « Hauterive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- géodésie
géodésie
30,868 corpus weight
- géostratégi…
géostratégique
30,867 corpus weight
- géraniums
géraniums
30,866 corpus weight
- Géricault
Géricault
30,865 corpus weight
- Hauterive
Hauterive
30,864 corpus weight
- Hemsworth
Hemsworth
30,861 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hauterive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hauterive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ot.ʁiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hauterive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hauterive is uncommon French at frequency #69,137 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ot.ʁiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Hauterive in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Hauterive, spelled H-A-U-T-E-R-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Allier.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de l’Orne.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département de l’Yonne.
- 4Ancienne commune du département du Doubs, aujourd’hui rattachée à Hauterive-la-Fresse.
- 5Ancienne commune du département de l’Eure-et-Loir, aujourd’hui rattachée à Saint-Maixme-Hauterive.
- 6Commune du canton de Fribourg en Suisse.
- 7Commune du canton de Neuchâtel en Suisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hauterive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En allant de Seignelay à Brienon, on rencontre au-delà du Serain des habitations disséminées qui composent la commune d’Hauterive, nommée en latin Alla Ripa, Alta Riva, de sa situation sur le bord du Serain. Elle réunit 341 habitants. On la trouve pour la première fois dans une charte de l'an 864.
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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