hôtesse
^((h muet))\o.tɛs\
The verdict
“hôtesse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,448. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,448
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui reçoit dans sa demeure ou un lieu dont elle est responsable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hotesse · hôtesse · French
hôtesse · rank #17,448 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,448
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Horace
Nearest frequency peer: Horace (-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 « hôtesse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- génétiqueme…
génétiquement
82,556 corpus weight
- havane
havane
82,555 corpus weight
- Horace
Horace
82,554 corpus weight
- hôtesse
hôtesse
82,553 corpus weight
- identifiées
identifiées
82,552 corpus weight
- Igor
Igor
82,551 corpus weight
What this shows « hôtesse » 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 | hôtesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\o.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hôtesse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hôtesse (IPA ^((h muet))\o.tɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,448 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hôtesse, with forms such as "hhôtesse", "hotesse", and "htôesse". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "housse", "hôtesses", "hôtes", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hôtesse, spelled H-Ô-T-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui reçoit dans sa demeure ou un lieu dont elle est responsable.
- 2Femme qui accueille et prend en charge des visiteurs, des clients. → voir hôtesse d’accueil, bar à hôtesses, hôtesse de caisse et hôtesse de l’air
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hôtesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous dormîmes honteusement jusqu'à huit heures, et je ne sais combien de temps nous aurions prolongé cette grasse matinée, si l’hôtesse n'était venue nous apporter le café, […].
Le Régiment des Gardes de retour à Paris, je ne pus loger chez mon hôtesse, parce que son mari s’était bien gardé de me réserver une chambre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhôtesse
- hotesse
- htôesse
- hôetsse
- hôtese
- hôteses
- hôtsese
- hôttesse
- ôhtesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hôtesse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hôtesse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).