hort
\hɔʁt\
The verdict
“hort” is uncommon French (frequency #83,936 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,936
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de horten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hort” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hort is uncommon French at frequency #83,936 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \hɔʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de horten.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hort in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hort, spelled H-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de horten.
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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Using “hort”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.