hittite
^((h aspiré))\i.tit\
The verdict
“hittite” is uncommon French (frequency #75,764 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,764
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue morte autrefois parlée par les Hittites.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hittite · hittite · French
hittite · rank #75,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,764
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hittites
Nearest frequency peer: Hittites (+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 « hittite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Herculanum
Herculanum
24,240 corpus weight
- hiberner
hiberner
24,239 corpus weight
- hittite
hittite
24,237 corpus weight
- Hittites
Hittites
24,236 corpus weight
- hominidés
hominidés
24,235 corpus weight
- homogénéiser
homogénéiser
24,234 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hittite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hittite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\i.tit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hittite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hittite is uncommon French at frequency #75,764 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\i.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue morte autrefois parlée par les Hittites.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hittite in our index, 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 no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hittite, spelled H-I-T-T-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Langue morte autrefois parlée par les Hittites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hittite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le hittite, la plus ancienne langue indo-européenne connue à ce jour, est aussi celle qui présente le plus de particularités par rapport aux autres langues indo-européennes. Par cette situation spécifique, le hittite constitue une langue fondamentale dans la grammaire comparée des langues indo-européennes, […].
Le hittite représente la langue de l’empire hittite (fig. 2) qui existait en Asie mineure vers le milieu du 2ᵉ millénaire. Le hittite comprend, tout en offrant les traits essentiels de la structure indo-européenne, de nombreux éléments étrangers des premières populations non-indo-européennes d’Asie mineure.
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); 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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