hauteur
^((h aspiré))\o.tœʁ\
The verdict
“hauteur” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,364 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,364
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dimension d’un corps considéré de sa base à son sommet.
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 | 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) |
Where “hauteur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hauteur is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hauteur, with forms such as "ahuteur", "hatueur", and "hauetur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hauteur, spelled H-A-U-T-E-U-R.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hauteur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “hauteur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-A-U-T-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h aspiré))\o.tœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “humeur” - see the side-by-side comparison. hauteur vs humeur
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.