houten
The verdict
“houten” is uncommon French (frequency #90,808 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,808
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En bois, de bois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houten · houten · French
houten · rank #90,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,808
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hoplites
Nearest frequency peer: hoplites (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « houten »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Holman
Holman
9,196 corpus weight
- hoog
hoog
9,195 corpus weight
- hoplites
hoplites
9,194 corpus weight
- houten
houten
9,193 corpus weight
- hte
hte
9,192 corpus weight
- hurluberlu
hurluberlu
9,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « houten » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houten |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « houten » en français
Rare enough to double-check
houten is uncommon French at frequency #90,808 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En bois, de bois.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for houten, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is houten, spelled H-O-U-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1En bois, de bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how houten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Een beroemd en spreekwoordelijk geworden paard uit de Oudheid is het Paard van Troje. Het was geen echt paard, maar een reusachtig houten bouwsel, dat door de Grieken werd gebruikt om de stad Troje met een list te veroveren.
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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