hauteur
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,364
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
hauteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dimension d’un corps considéré de sa base à son sommet. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\o.tœʁ\. It ranks #1,364 in French word frequency. Often confused with humeur and hauteurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hauteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hauteur is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\o.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,364 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for hauteur, with forms such as "ahuteur", "hatueur", and "hauetur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "humeur", "hauteurs", "haute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 hauteur, spelled H-A-U-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dimension d’un corps considéré de sa base à son sommet.
- 2Le point le plus haut atteint par les eaux de la marée, d’une crue, d’une inondation.
- 3Élévation d’un corps au-dessus de la terre ou de toute autre surface horizontale.
- 4Droite passant par le sommet d’une figure et perpendiculaire à la base.
- 5Mesure de la distance de ce point à la référence de base.
- 6Angle compris entre le plan de l’horizon et le rayon visuel mené au point du ciel que l’on veut désigner.
- 7Le même parallèle, dans le même degré de latitude qu’une île, qu’une ville, etc.
- 8Proximité de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un.
- 9Nombre des vibrations émises par le son quand il se produit.
- 10Profondeur.
- 11Colline ; éminence.
- 12Lieu qui est situé au-dessus.
- 13Nature de ce qui est supérieur, éminent, d’un ordre élevé.
- 14Fierté, parole, attitude orgueilleuse. Arrogance, orgueil.
- 15Les actions, les paroles qui marquent de l’arrogance.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahuteur,hatueur,hauetur,hauteru,hauteurr,hautteur,hautuer,hhauteur,huateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hauteur
Misspelling Variants of "hauteur"
Frequency rank: #1,364 in French
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