hortensia

/^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#68,343

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hortensia is aFrenchnoun. It means: Arbrisseau originaire du Japon, du genre Hydrangea, qui est cultivé comme plante d’agrément : il porte des fleurs blanches, bleues (Ph=4), mauves (Ph=6) ou roses (PH=6,5) selon la composition du so... Pronounced ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\.

Key facts for hortensia
PropertyValue
Headwordhortensia
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\
Letters9
Frequency rank#68,343
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of hortensia in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hortensia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\. Corpus data places it at rank #68,343 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arbrisseau originaire du Japon, du genre Hydrangea, qui est cultivé comme plante d’agrément : il porte des fleurs blanches, bleues (Ph=4), mauves (Ph=6) ou roses (PH=6,5) selon la composition du so...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hortensia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 hortensia, spelled H-O-R-T-E-N-S-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arbrisseau originaire du Japon, du genre Hydrangea, qui est cultivé comme plante d’agrément : il porte des fleurs blanches, bleues (Ph=4), mauves (Ph=6) ou roses (PH=6,5) selon la composition du sol, à l’extrémité des rameaux, en boules, en corymbes touffus.

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Frequency rank: #68,343 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hortensia"?
"hortensia" is spelled H-O-R-T-E-N-S-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\.
What does "hortensia" mean?
As a noun, "hortensia" means: Arbrisseau originaire du Japon, du genre Hydrangea, qui est cultivé comme plante d’agrément : il porte des fleurs blanches, bleues (Ph=4), mauves (Ph=6) ou roses (PH=6,5) selon la composition du so...
How do you pronounce "hortensia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hortensia" is ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.