hors
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#688
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hors is aFrenchprep. It means: Préposition servant à marquer l’exclusion du lieu. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔʁ\. It ranks #688 in French word frequency. Often confused with Hs and hr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hors |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hors is 4 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\ɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #688 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for hors, with forms such as "hhors", "horrs", and "horss". 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, "Hs", "hr", "hot", 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 hors, spelled H-O-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préposition servant à marquer l’exclusion du lieu.
- 2Excepté.
- 3Il s’employait devant les verbes à l’infinitif avec la préposition de et devant les autres modes verbaux avec la particule que. On dit aujourd’hui loin de et sauf que.
- 4Marque toujours l’exclusion de la chose indiquée par le complément.
- 5Quelquefois préposition de temps et sert à marquer l’exclusion du temps.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhors,horrs,horss,hosr,hros,ohrs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hors
Misspelling Variants of "hors"
Frequency rank: #688 in French
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