hébétude
\e.be.tyd\
The verdict
“hébétude” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Engourdissement des facultés cérébrales dans certaines maladies, l’anémie cérébrale, par exemple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hebetude · hébétude · French
hébétude · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hébétude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.be.tyd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
hébétude is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.be.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hébétude doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hébétude, spelled H-É-B-É-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Engourdissement des facultés cérébrales dans certaines maladies, l’anémie cérébrale, par exemple.
- 2Apparence ou comportement d’une personne qui semble soudain engourdie ou sidérée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hébétude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La soudaineté chirurgicale de leur rupture le laissa stupide. Seul dans cette maison que leur couple, quasi conjugal, habitait depuis quelque vingt ans, il ne parvenait pas, au bout de huit jours, à s’évader de l’hébétude pour entrer dans le chagrin.
Un monsieur, courant, une serviette sous le bras, le heurta sans ménagements et l’arracha à son hébétude.
This word in other languages
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.