hépatites
\e.pa.tit\
The verdict
“hépatites” is uncommon French (frequency #61,604 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,604
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hépatite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hepatites · hépatites · French
hépatites · rank #61,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,604
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hémorragiques
Nearest frequency peer: hémorragiques (-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 « hépatites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hypothalamus
hypothalamus
38,401 corpus weight
- hébraïques
hébraïques
38,399 corpus weight
- hémorragiqu…
hémorragiques
38,398 corpus weight
- hépatites
hépatites
38,397 corpus weight
- igname
igname
38,395 corpus weight
- IGS
IGS
38,394 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hépatites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hépatites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pa.tit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hépatites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hépatites is uncommon French at frequency #61,604 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pa.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hépatite.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hépatites, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hépatites, spelled H-É-P-A-T-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hépatite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hépatites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1994, il n’y avait toujours pas de trithérapies, d’antiprotéases, de traitement efficace contre les hépatites, pas de génériques pour les pays en voie de développement.
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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