houe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,284
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
houe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument de fer, large et recourbé, qui a un manche de bois, et avec lequel on remue la terre en la tirant vers soi. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\u\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\u\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for houe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\u\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,284 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for houe in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 houe, spelled H-O-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument de fer, large et recourbé, qui a un manche de bois, et avec lequel on remue la terre en la tirant vers soi.
- 2Meuble représentant l’outil du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée en pal, fer vers le chef et tourné à dextre. Si son manche est d'un autre émail, on la dit emmanchée.
- 3Instrument à bord tranchant.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #80,284 in French
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