hoste
\ˈhoːstə\
The verdict
“hoste” is uncommon French (frequency #83,937 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,937
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de hosen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hoste · hoste · French
hoste · rank #83,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,937
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hort
Nearest frequency peer: hort (-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 « hoste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- hyperloop
hyperloop
16,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hoste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈhoːstə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hoste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hoste is uncommon French at frequency #83,937 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈhoːstə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hoste, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hoste, spelled H-O-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de hosen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du subjonctif II de hosen.
- 3Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de hosen.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif II de hosen.
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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