honte
French, noun/ɔ̃t/
honte is spelled H-O-N-T-E (5 letters) and appears 40 times per million words in written French, the 2,074th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Honte is a French feminine noun meaning “shame (feeling)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déshonneur, opprobre, humiliation (ce qui est le sens étymologique et ancien)”.
What does honte mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshame (feeling)
- 2
feminineshame (something shameful)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Déshonneur, opprobre, humiliation (ce qui est le sens étymologique et ancien). 2. Par exclamation. 3. Ce qui ne convient pas, ce qui est messéant. 4. Se 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).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of honte
- hontes plural
- ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce honte?
- /ɔ̃t/
- /hɔ̃t/
- [hɔ̃n]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to honte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is honte in French?
honte appears 40 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).