horizontalité
^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃.ta.li.te\
The verdict
“horizontalité” is uncommon French (frequency #69,905 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,905
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est horizontal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horizontalite · horizontalité · French
horizontalité · rank #69,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,905
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hormonales
Nearest frequency peer: hormonales (+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 « horizontalité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Holger
Holger
30,100 corpus weight
- hollander
hollander
30,099 corpus weight
- Holm
Holm
30,098 corpus weight
- horizontali…
horizontalité
30,096 corpus weight
- hormonales
hormonales
30,095 corpus weight
- huppe
huppe
30,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « horizontalité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horizontalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃.ta.li.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #69,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « horizontalité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
horizontalité is uncommon French at frequency #69,905 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃.ta.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est horizontal.".
No misspelling variants are generated for horizontalité in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is horizontalité, spelled H-O-R-I-Z-O-N-T-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est horizontal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horizontalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En somme, l'importante modification provoquée par le tremblement de terre consistait en ceci : c'est que, […], l'horizontalité du sol était détruite, et que sa pente s'accusait en descendant de l'est à l'ouest.
Dubourg avait épousé, disait-il, cette Fanny pour son extraordinaire aptitude au silence et à l’horizontalité.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).