Hittites
^((h aspiré))\i.tit\
The verdict
“Hittites” is uncommon French (frequency #75,765 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,765
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Hittite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hittites · Hittites · French
Hittites · rank #75,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,765
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hittite
Nearest frequency peer: hittite (-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 « Hittites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- hud
hud
24,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hittites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hittites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\i.tit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hittites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hittites is uncommon French at frequency #75,765 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\i.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de Hittite.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Hittites in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Hittites, spelled H-I-T-T-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Hittite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hittites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les carrières d’albâtre des monts Gordiyæens et les forêts de la Phénicie avaient été mises également à contribution pour en panneler les salles d’apparat : trente-deux rois des Hittites et de la côte méditerranéenne envoyèrent à Ninive des troncs de sapins, de cèdres, de cyprès, débités en larges billots.
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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