honte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,083
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
honte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Déshonneur, opprobre, humiliation (ce qui est le sens étymologique et ancien). Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\. It ranks #2,083 in French word frequency. Often confused with hot and hôte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | honte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for honte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,083 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for honte, with forms such as "hhonte", "hnote", and "honet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hot", "hôte", "hope", 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 honte, spelled H-O-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Déshonneur, opprobre, humiliation (ce qui est le sens étymologique et ancien).
- 2Déshonneur, opprobre, humiliation (ce qui est le sens étymologique et ancien).
- 3Ce qui ne convient pas, ce qui est messéant.
- 4Se dit aussi au pluriel (Voltaire a condamné cet emploi ; mais, outre les autorités, la raison et l’usage n'empêchent pas d’employer ce mot abstrait au pluriel).
- 5Sentiment pénible qu’excite dans l’âme la pensée ou la crainte du déshonneur; ou la conscience d’une faute commise et la confusion, le trouble qu’on en ressent.
- 6Dans le langage biblique, les parties que l’on doit cacher.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhonte,hnote,honet,honnte,hontte,hotne,ohnte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for honte
Misspelling Variants of "honte"
Frequency rank: #2,083 in French
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