HTA
\aʃ.te.a\
The verdict
“HTA” is uncommon French (frequency #87,725 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,725
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hypertension artérielle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hta · HTA · French
HTA · rank #87,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,725
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Houllier
Nearest frequency peer: Houllier (-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 « HTA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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honour
12,279 corpus weight
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Honshu
12,278 corpus weight
- Houllier
Houllier
12,277 corpus weight
- HTA
HTA
12,276 corpus weight
- hustler
hustler
12,274 corpus weight
- hypocondrie
hypocondrie
12,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « HTA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | HTA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʃ.te.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #87,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « HTA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
HTA is uncommon French at frequency #87,725 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʃ.te.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for HTA in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is HTA, spelled H-T-A.
Definition
- 1Hypertension artérielle.
- 2En France, distribution d’électricité en moyenne tension.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how HTA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la suite des engagements pris par la précédente équipe municipale dans les toutes dernières semaines de sa mandature concernant la ligne à haute tension (HTA) de La Thalotte, les élus de Tonnay-Boutonne se disent désormais au pied du mur.
Le réseau de distribution est constitué de deux types de lignes : les lignes moyenne tension (HTA) et les lignes basse tension (BT).
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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