hove
\həʊv\
The verdict
“hove” is uncommon French (frequency #74,069 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,069
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit du verbe to heave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hove · hove · French
hove · rank #74,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,069
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hortensias
Nearest frequency peer: hortensias (-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 « hove »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hongkongaise
hongkongaise
25,935 corpus weight
- hortensias
hortensias
25,933 corpus weight
- hove
hove
25,932 corpus weight
- huart
huart
25,931 corpus weight
- Hussain
Hussain
25,930 corpus weight
- hâtez
hâtez
25,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hove » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hove |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \həʊv\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hove » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hove is uncommon French at frequency #74,069 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \həʊv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hove, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hove, spelled H-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1Prétérit du verbe to heave.
- 2Participe passé du verbe to heave.
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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