homemade
\ˈhɔʊ̯mˌmɛɪ̯t\
The verdict
“homemade” is uncommon French (frequency #84,878 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,878
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fait maison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homemade · homemade · French
homemade · rank #84,878 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,878
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 109,908
- PHOTO-FINISH Hoggar
Nearest frequency peer: Hoggar (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “homemade”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hiéroglyphe
hiéroglyphe
15,126 corpus weight
- hockeyeurs
hockeyeurs
15,125 corpus weight
- Hoggar
Hoggar
15,124 corpus weight
- homemade
homemade
15,123 corpus weight
- honk
honk
15,122 corpus weight
- hune
hune
15,119 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “homemade” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homemade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈhɔʊ̯mˌmɛɪ̯t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “homemade” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
homemade is uncommon French at frequency #84,878 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈhɔʊ̯mˌmɛɪ̯t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait maison.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for homemade in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 homemade, spelled H-O-M-E-M-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Fait maison.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "homemade", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.