hésitons
^((h muet))\e.zi.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“hésitons” is uncommon French (frequency #74,878 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,878
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de hésiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hesitons · hésitons · French
hésitons · rank #74,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,878
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hérissée
Nearest frequency peer: hérissée (-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 « hésitons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hébété
hébété
25,126 corpus weight
- hérissée
hérissée
25,124 corpus weight
- hésitons
hésitons
25,123 corpus weight
- hétérodoxe
hétérodoxe
25,122 corpus weight
- idéalise
idéalise
25,121 corpus weight
- Ilana
Ilana
25,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hésitons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hésitons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\e.zi.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hésitons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hésitons is uncommon French at frequency #74,878 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h muet))\e.zi.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hésitons, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hésitons, spelled H-É-S-I-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de hésiter.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de hésiter.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).