hopes
\hoʊps\
The verdict
“hopes” is uncommon French (frequency #85,798 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,798
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe hope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hopes · hopes · French
hopes · rank #85,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,798
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hooliganisme
Nearest frequency peer: hooliganisme (-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 « hopes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Homepage
Homepage
14,207 corpus weight
- homestead
homestead
14,206 corpus weight
- honorabilité
honorabilité
14,205 corpus weight
- hooliganisme
hooliganisme
14,204 corpus weight
- hopes
hopes
14,203 corpus weight
- HSE
HSE
14,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hopes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hopes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hoʊps\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hopes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hopes is uncommon French at frequency #85,798 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \hoʊps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe hope.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hopes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hopes, spelled H-O-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe hope.
Synonyms
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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