honneur
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | honneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Sentiment d’une dignité morale, estimée plus haut que tous les biens, et qui porte certaines personnes à des actions loyales, nobles et courageuses.
- 2Sentiment d’une dignité morale, estimée plus haut que tous les biens, et qui porte certaines personnes à des actions loyales, nobles et courageuses.
- 3Pudicité, chasteté, souci de se respecter soi-même, en parlant des femmes ou des filles.
- 4Estime, considération, renom ou éclat qui suivent les talents ou les vertus.
- 5Estime qu’on obtient non seulement des autres, mais qu’on peut avoir de soi-même.
- 6En plaisantant.
- 7Fierté.
- 8Action, 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.
- 9Grâce, faveur ou distinction.
- 10Grâce, faveur ou distinction.
- 11Dignité ; charge.
- 12Pièces principales, comme le sceptre, la couronne, etc., qui servaient à certaines grandes cérémonies, telles que le sacre des rois, leur baptême, leurs funérailles, etc.
- 13Figure d’atout, de certains jeux de cartes.
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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"
Frequency rank: #823 in French
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