hostile
\ɔs.til\
The verdict
“hostile” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,708
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’un ennemi, qui annonce, qui caractérise un ennemi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hostile · hostile · French
hostile · rank #7,708 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,708
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harper
Nearest frequency peer: harper (-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 « hostile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe
92,296 corpus weight
- habits
habits
92,295 corpus weight
- harper
harper
92,294 corpus weight
- hostile
hostile
92,293 corpus weight
- Howard
Howard
92,292 corpus weight
- hypothèses
hypothèses
92,291 corpus weight
What this shows « hostile » 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 | hostile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔs.til\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hostile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around hostile (IPA \ɔs.til\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,708 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for hostile, with forms such as "hhostile", "hositle", and "hosstile". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hostiles", "hostilité", "hostie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hostile, spelled H-O-S-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’un ennemi, qui annonce, qui caractérise un ennemi.
- 2Qui est fermement opposé à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un.
- 3Qualifie une OPA qui n’a pas l’assentiment de, voire est jugée indésirable par, la société visée par ladite OPA.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hostile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pape Innocent III (1193-1216) devait rompre avec cette tradition de tolérance et se faire l’inspirateur d’une politique hostile, qu’il mena avec une vigueur exceptionnelle.
Les historiens de la philosophie me paraissent avoir été très hostiles à Xénophon parce qu'il est trop vieux Grec; Platon leur convient mieux parce qu’il est plus aristocrate, et par suite plus détaché de l’économie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhostile
- hositle
- hosstile
- hostiel
- hostille
- hostlie
- hosttile
- hotsile
- hsotile
- ohstile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hostile - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).