hort
\hɔʁt\
The verdict
“hort” is uncommon French (frequency #83,936 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,936
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de horten.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hort · hort · French
hort · rank #83,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,936
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH horripile
Nearest frequency peer: horripile (-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 « hort »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hesbaye
Hesbaye
16,070 corpus weight
- hissés
hissés
16,068 corpus weight
- hiverner
hiverner
16,067 corpus weight
- horripile
horripile
16,066 corpus weight
- hort
hort
16,065 corpus weight
- hoste
hoste
16,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hort » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « hort » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hort is uncommon French at frequency #83,936 among 1,969 “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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