honneur

/^((h muet))\ɔ.nœʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#823

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

honneur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sentiment d’une dignité morale, estimée plus haut que tous les biens, et qui porte certaines personnes à des actions loyales, nobles et courageuses. Pronounced ^((h muet))\ɔ.nœʁ\. It ranks #823 in French word frequency. Often confused with horreur and honteux.

Key facts for honneur
PropertyValue
Headwordhonneur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h muet))\ɔ.nœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#823
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of honneur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for honneur is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\ɔ.nœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #823 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for honneur, with forms such as "hhonneur", "hnoneur", and "honenur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "horreur", "honteux", "honneurs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is honneur, spelled H-O-N-N-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sentiment d’une dignité morale, estimée plus haut que tous les biens, et qui porte certaines personnes à des actions loyales, nobles et courageuses.
  2. 2
    Sentiment d’une dignité morale, estimée plus haut que tous les biens, et qui porte certaines personnes à des actions loyales, nobles et courageuses.
  3. 3
    Pudicité, chasteté, souci de se respecter soi-même, en parlant des femmes ou des filles.
  4. 4
    Estime, considération, renom ou éclat qui suivent les talents ou les vertus.
  5. 5
    Estime qu’on obtient non seulement des autres, mais qu’on peut avoir de soi-même.
  6. 6
    En plaisantant.
  7. 7
    Fierté.
  8. 8
    Action, démonstration extérieure, égards par lesquels on fait connaître la vénération, le respect, l’estime qu’on a pour la dignité ou pour le mérite de quelqu’un. Dans ce sens, on l’emploie souvent au pluriel.
  9. 9
    Grâce, faveur ou distinction.
  10. 10
    Grâce, faveur ou distinction.
  11. 11
    Dignité ; charge.
  12. 12
    Pièces principales, comme le sceptre, la couronne, etc., qui servaient à certaines grandes cérémonies, telles que le sacre des rois, leur baptême, leurs funérailles, etc.
  13. 13
    Figure d’atout, de certains jeux de cartes.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hhonneur,hnoneur,honenur,honeur,honneru,honneurr,honnuer,ohnneur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for honneur

Misspelling Variants of "honneur"

hhonneur8hnoneur7honenur7honeur6honneru7honneurr8honnuer7ohnneur7
Misspelling Variants of "honneur"

Frequency rank: #823 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "honneur"?
"honneur" is spelled H-O-N-N-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\ɔ.nœʁ\.
What does "honneur" mean?
As a noun, "honneur" means: Sentiment d’une dignité morale, estimée plus haut que tous les biens, et qui porte certaines personnes à des actions loyales, nobles et courageuses.
What words are commonly confused with "honneur"?
"honneur" is commonly confused with "horreur", "honteux", "honneurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "honneur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "honneur" is ^((h muet))\ɔ.nœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "honneur" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.