hot
\ɔt\
The verdict
“hot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,200) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,200
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intéressant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hot · hot · French
hot · rank #6,200 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,200
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harmonie
Nearest frequency peer: harmonie (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hot”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- guise
guise
93,804 corpus weight
- handicap
handicap
93,803 corpus weight
- harmonie
harmonie
93,802 corpus weight
- hot
hot
93,801 corpus weight
- ignorance
ignorance
93,800 corpus weight
- Illusion
Illusion
93,799 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hot” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | hot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “hot” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hot is neighbouring look-alikes ("hp", "Hs", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ɔt\. Frequency #6,200 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
hot has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hp", "Hs", "hr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hot, spelled H-O-T.
Definition
- 1Intéressant.
- 2Qualifie une situation particulièrement chaude ou érotique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La soirée a été hot !
Comment s’est passée la rencontre, la discussion ? Ho…, ça a été hot !
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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- "hot" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "hp". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #6,200 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.