hostiles
\ɔs.til\
The verdict
“hostiles” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,423. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,423
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hostile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hostiles · hostiles · French
hostiles · rank #11,423 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,423
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hardcore
Nearest frequency peer: hardcore (-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 « hostiles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- générateur
générateur
88,581 corpus weight
- hardcore
hardcore
88,579 corpus weight
- hostiles
hostiles
88,578 corpus weight
- impunité
impunité
88,577 corpus weight
- individuell…
individuellement
88,576 corpus weight
- initiation
initiation
88,575 corpus weight
What this shows « hostiles » 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 | hostiles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔs.til\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hostiles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around hostiles (IPA \ɔs.til\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,423 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de hostile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hostiles, with forms such as "hhostiles", "hositles", and "hosstiles". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "hostilités", "hostie", "hostile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hostiles, spelled H-O-S-T-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hostile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hostiles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’entrée j’ai été désaffermi, rejeté, bousculé, à les voir si attaquants, si furieux, et revenant sans cesse à la charge, et toujours aussi violents, et hostiles — presque enragés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhostiles
- hositles
- hosstiles
- hostiels
- hostiless
- hostilles
- hostilse
- hostlies
- hosttiles
- hotsiles
- hsotiles
- ohstiles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hostiles - 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).