hontes
^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\
The verdict
“hontes” is uncommon French (frequency #74,868 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,868
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de honte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hontes · hontes · French
hontes · rank #74,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,868
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH honorera
Nearest frequency peer: honorera (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « hontes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hilarion
Hilarion
25,137 corpus weight
- histologique
histologique
25,136 corpus weight
- Hondurien
Hondurien
25,135 corpus weight
- honorera
honorera
25,134 corpus weight
- hontes
hontes
25,133 corpus weight
- hoodie
hoodie
25,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hontes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hontes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hontes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hontes is uncommon French at frequency #74,868 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de honte.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hontes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hontes, spelled H-O-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de honte.
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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