hortensias
^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\
The verdict
“hortensias” is uncommon French (frequency #74,068 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,068
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hortensia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hortensias · hortensias · French
hortensias · rank #74,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,068
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hove
Nearest frequency peer: hove (+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 « hortensias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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honest
25,936 corpus weight
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hongkongaise
25,935 corpus weight
- hortensias
hortensias
25,933 corpus weight
- hove
hove
25,932 corpus weight
- huart
huart
25,931 corpus weight
- Hussain
Hussain
25,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hortensias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hortensias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hortensias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hortensias is uncommon French at frequency #74,068 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\ɔʁ.tɑ̃.sja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hortensia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hortensias in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hortensias, spelled H-O-R-T-E-N-S-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hortensia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hortensias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas moins de 250 variétés de douze espèces d’hortensias ont été plantées tout au long de ce parcours.
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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