hublot
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,989
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
hublot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit sabord, petite ouverture, généralement ronde, percée dans la muraille d’un vaisseau, pour donner du jour et de l’air, pour laisser passer les câbles, la barre du gouvernail, etc. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\y.blo\. Often confused with hulot and hubert.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hublot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\y.blo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hublot is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\y.blo\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,989 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for hublot, with forms such as "hbulot", "hhublot", and "hubblot". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hulot", "hubert", "houblon", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hublot, spelled H-U-B-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit sabord, petite ouverture, généralement ronde, percée dans la muraille d’un vaisseau, pour donner du jour et de l’air, pour laisser passer les câbles, la barre du gouvernail, etc.
- 2Ouverture vitrée dans les parois de la carlingue d’un avion.
- 3Fenêtre ronde.
- 4Partie vitrée d’un appareil qui permet de regarder à l’intérieur de l’appareil.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hbulot,hhublot,hubblot,hubllot,hublott,hublto,hubolt,hulbot,uhblot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hublot
Misspelling Variants of "hublot"
Frequency rank: #35,989 in French
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