houten

adj

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The verdict

“houten” is uncommon French (frequency #90,808 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,808
frequency rank, French
109,908
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En bois, de bois.

Key facts for houten
PropertyValue
Headwordhouten
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters6
Frequency rank#90,808
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “houten” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). houten lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

houten is uncommon French at frequency #90,808 among 109,908 “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

  1. 1
    En bois, de bois.

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 "houten"?
"houten" is spelled H-O-U-T-E-N.
What does "houten" mean?
As an adjective, "houten" means: En bois, de bois.
What language does "houten" come from?
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Using “houten”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is H-O-U-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list