hitch
\hɪt͡ʃ\
The verdict
“hitch” is uncommon French (frequency #69,146 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,146
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attacher, pour tirer ou trainer une remorque ou un autre objet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hitch · hitch · French
hitch · rank #69,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,146
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH horoscopes
Nearest frequency peer: horoscopes (+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 « hitch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hendrik
Hendrik
30,860 corpus weight
- herboriste
herboriste
30,859 corpus weight
- hitch
hitch
30,855 corpus weight
- horoscopes
horoscopes
30,854 corpus weight
- humanity
humanity
30,852 corpus weight
- humiliants
humiliants
30,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hitch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hitch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hɪt͡ʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hitch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hitch is uncommon French at frequency #69,146 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \hɪt͡ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attacher, pour tirer ou trainer une remorque ou un autre objet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hitch, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hitch, spelled H-I-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Attacher, pour tirer ou trainer une remorque ou un autre objet.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "hitch"?
What does "hitch" mean?
How do you pronounce "hitch"?
What language does "hitch" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hitch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).