hotte

^((h aspiré))\ɔt\

/^((h aspiré))\ɔt\/ noun

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The verdict

“hotte” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,336) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#39,336
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de panier, ouvrage du vannier, qui a des bretelles et qu’on porte sur le dos.

Corpus desk

Index FR-hotte · hotte · French

hotte · rank #39,336 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,336
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hercules

Nearest frequency peer: Hercules (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « hotte »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « hotte » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

hotte vs HTTP
0% similar
hotte vs Howe
40% similar
hotte vs house
60% similar

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

Key facts for hotte
PropertyValue
Headwordhotte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h aspiré))\ɔt\
Letters5
Frequency rank#39,336
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hotte »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.hottese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Hercules » (#39,335), « hug » (#39,337), « hydrique » (#39,338). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « hotte » est au #39,336. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for hotte is neighbouring look-alikes ("HTTP", "Howe", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔt\. Frequency #39,336 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 9 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for hotte, with forms such as "hhotte", "hotet", and "htote". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "HTTP", "Howe", "house", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hotte, spelled H-O-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte de panier, ouvrage du vannier, qui a des bretelles et qu’on porte sur le dos.
  2. 2
    Appareil électromécanique servant à aspirer les vapeurs de cuisson dans une cuisine (voir hotte aspirante).
  3. 3
    Partie inférieure et évasée d’une cheminée, qui recouvre une forge, un fourneau de laboratoire ou de cuisine, et qui doit faciliter l’élévation des vapeurs qui s’en échappent.
  4. 4
    Coffrage du conduit de fumée en forme de cône situé au dessus de l'âtre d'une cheminée.
  5. 5
    Cuvette recevant les eaux des cuisines et des combles.
  6. 6
    Louchet d’un instrument à draguer.
  7. 7
    Petit tombereau servant à porter le fumier sur les terres.
  8. 8
    Panier d'osier servant à la cueillette des fruits sauvages.
  9. 9
    Panier dans lequel on met le bois à brûler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Porter la hotte.
  2. Hotte du père Noël.

Synonyms

bagnole

This word in other languages

basket(English)cuévano(Español)Abzug(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhotte
  • hotet
  • htote
  • ohtte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hotte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

hhotte1hotet2htote2ohtte2
Edit distance from "hotte"

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 "hotte"?
"hotte" is spelled H-O-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\ɔt\.
What does "hotte" mean?
As a noun, "hotte" means: Sorte de panier, ouvrage du vannier, qui a des bretelles et qu’on porte sur le dos.
What words are commonly confused with "hotte"?
"hotte" is commonly confused with "HTTP", "Howe", "house". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "hotte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hotte" is ^((h aspiré))\ɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hotte" come from?
"hotte" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Hayek#39,332Gregg#39,325gogol#39,321fonts#39,304

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list