housse

^((h aspiré))\us\

/^((h aspiré))\us\/ noun

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The verdict

“housse” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,345
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de couverture qu’on attache à la selle d’un cheval et qui couvre la croupe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-housse · housse · French

housse · rank #21,345 · 5 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,345
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH hormone

Nearest frequency peer: hormone (-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 « housse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « housse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

housse vs house
83% similar
housse vs houle
67% similar
housse vs horse
67% similar

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

Key facts for housse
PropertyValue
Headwordhousse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h aspiré))\us\
Letters6
Frequency rank#21,345
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « housse »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.houssese 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 « hormone » (#21,344), « hypertension » (#21,346), « Hoffman » (#21,343). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « housse » est au #21,345. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around housse (IPA ^((h aspiré))\us\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,345 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for housse, with forms such as "hhousse", "hosuse", and "houses". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "house", "houle", "horse", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is housse, spelled H-O-U-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte de couverture qu’on attache à la selle d’un cheval et qui couvre la croupe.
  2. 2
    Couverture du siège du cocher.
  3. 3
    Couvertures d’étoffe légère dont on se sert pour couvrir les meubles.
  4. 4
    Sorte d'enveloppe de tissu qui protège des objets de la saleté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les blessures du comte, si légères qu’elles fussent, laissaient échapper du sang qui coulait jusque sur les housses de son cheval.
  2. Housse en broderie. - Housse à frange. - Housse à écusson.

This word in other languages

slipcover(English)funda(Español)Hülle(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhousse
  • hosuse
  • houses
  • huosse
  • ohusse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of housse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

hhousse1hosuse2houses2huosse2ohusse2
Edit distance from "housse"

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 "housse"?
"housse" is spelled H-O-U-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\us\.
What does "housse" mean?
As a noun, "housse" means: Sorte de couverture qu’on attache à la selle d’un cheval et qui couvre la croupe.
What words are commonly confused with "housse"?
"housse" is commonly confused with "house", "houle", "horse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "housse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "housse" is ^((h aspiré))\us\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "housse" come from?
"housse" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Hansen#21,340Friday#21,327fixent#21,322finies#21,321

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

eyes5 variantsLaos5 variantsexit5 variantsbrio5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list