hostilité

^((h muet))\ɔs.ti.li.te\

/^((h muet))\ɔs.ti.li.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“hostilité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,600
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte d’un ennemi ou état de guerre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-hostilite · hostilité · French

hostilité · rank #11,600 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,600
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH horreurs

Nearest frequency peer: horreurs (-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 « hostilité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « hostilité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

hostilité vs hostilités
90% similar
hostilité vs hostile
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for hostilité
PropertyValue
Headwordhostilité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h muet))\ɔs.ti.li.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#11,600
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hostilité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).hostilitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « horreurs » (#11,599), « hunter » (#11,601), « here » (#11,597). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « hostilité » est au #11,600. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around hostilité (IPA ^((h muet))\ɔs.ti.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,600 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for hostilité, with forms such as "hhostilité", "hositlité", and "hosstilité". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hostilités", "hostile", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hostilité, spelled H-O-S-T-I-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acte d’un ennemi ou état de guerre.
  2. 2
    Comportement d’inimitié ou d’opposition ; disposition hostile.
  3. 3
    Sentiment d’animosité, déclaré ou dissimulé, qui incline une personne à l’agression.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how hostilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un commencement d’hostilités, commencer les hostilités.
  2. Suspendre les hostilités.

Synonyms

animositébelligéranceinimitié

This word in other languages

hostility(English)hostilidad(Español)Feindseligkeit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhostilité
  • hositlité
  • hosstilité
  • hostiilté
  • hostilite
  • hostilitté
  • hostiliét
  • hostillité
  • hostiltié
  • hostliité
  • hosttilité
  • hotsilité
  • hsotilité
  • ohstilité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hostilité - 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.

hhostilité1hositlité2hosstilité1hostiilté2hostilite1hostilitté1hostiliét2hostillité1
Edit distance from "hostilité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hostilité"?
"hostilité" is spelled H-O-S-T-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\ɔs.ti.li.te\.
What does "hostilité" mean?
As a noun, "hostilité" means: Acte d’un ennemi ou état de guerre.
What words are commonly confused with "hostilité"?
"hostilité" is commonly confused with "hostilités", "hostile". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "hostilité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hostilité" is ^((h muet))\ɔs.ti.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hostilité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hostilité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

dynamisme14 variantscomposées14 variantsAutrichien14 variantségyptienne14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list