hôte
The verdict
“hôte” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,098 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,098
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Celui qui donne l’hospitalité par humanité, par amitié, par bienveillance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hôte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ot\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hôte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hôte is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\ot\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,098 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for hôte, with forms such as "hhôte", "hote", and "htôe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "how", "hue", "HTC", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hôte, spelled H-Ô-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui donne l’hospitalité par humanité, par amitié, par bienveillance.
- 2Celui qui reçoit en sa demeure ou un lieu dont il est responsable.
- 3Celui qui tient un cabaret, un hôtel ou une auberge.
- 4Celui à qui on donne l’hospitalité, que l’on reçoit. → voir table d’hôte et maison d’hôte
- 5Celui qui fréquente un hôtel, une auberge, etc.
- 6Habitant d’un lieu.
- 7Plante ou animal qui parasite un organisme ou envahit un habitat.
- 8Ordinateur reconnu qui se connecte à un serveur. → voir ordinateur hôte
- 9Organisme qui héberge un parasite.
- 10Organisme partenaire mutuel ; partenaire commensal.
- 11Nom du système qui héberge un système virtualisé. → voir système hôte
- 12Serveur ou logiciel qui centralise et répartit les requêtes Internet pour les machines situées sur le réseau d’une entreprise.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhôte,hote,htôe,hôet,hôtte,ôhte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hôte — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "hôte"
Frequency rank: #6,098 in French
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Using “hôte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-Ô-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h muet))\ot\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “how” — see the side-by-side comparison. hôte vs how
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter H in our French index: