have the hots for
\hæv ðə hɒts fɔː(ɹ)\
The verdict
“have the hots for” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être attiré (sexuellement ou romantiquement) par (quelqu’un).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | have the hots for |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hæv ðə hɒts fɔː(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “have the hots for” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for have the hots for is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \hæv ðə hɒts fɔː(ɹ)\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Être attiré (sexuellement ou romantiquement) par (quelqu’un).".
No misspelling variants are generated for have the hots for in our index, 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.
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 have the hots for, spelled H-A-V-E- -T-H-E- -H-O-T-S- -F-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être attiré (sexuellement ou romantiquement) par (quelqu’un).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “have the hots for”
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- The one correct French spelling is H-A-V-E- -T-H-E- -H-O-T-S- -F-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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