Hortense
\ɔʁ.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“Hortense” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,987
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hortense · Hortense · French
Hortense · rank #28,987 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,987
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hole
Nearest frequency peer: hole (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hortense »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- harmony
harmony
71,017 corpus weight
- heritage
heritage
71,016 corpus weight
- hole
hole
71,015 corpus weight
- Hortense
Hortense
71,014 corpus weight
- hospitalisés
hospitalisés
71,013 corpus weight
- hostie
hostie
71,012 corpus weight
What this shows « Hortense » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hortense |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hortense »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Hortense (IPA \ɔʁ.tɑ̃s\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,987 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hortense, with forms such as "hhortense", "horetnse", and "horrtense". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hôtesse", "honteuse", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Hortense, spelled H-O-R-T-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hortense appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma tante Hortense est très malade…
Hortense, par une dissimulation dont se serait effrayée Lisbeth Fischer, si elle s’en était aperçue, se garda bien d’exprimer toute son admiration, quoiqu’elle éprouvât ce saisissement que ressentent les gens dont l’âme est ouverte au beau, quand ils voient un chef-d’œuvre sans défaut, complet, inattendu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhortense
- horetnse
- horrtense
- hortenes
- hortennse
- hortensse
- hortesne
- hortnese
- horttense
- hotrense
- hrotense
- ohrtense
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hortense - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).