huitaine
^((h aspiré))\ɥi.tɛn\
The verdict
“huitaine” is uncommon French (frequency #91,790 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,790
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de choses de même nature au nombre de huit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huitaine · huitaine · French
huitaine · rank #91,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,790
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH humidifier
Nearest frequency peer: humidifier (+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 « huitaine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hirsutes
hirsutes
8,216 corpus weight
- hobo
hobo
8,215 corpus weight
- huitaine
huitaine
8,211 corpus weight
- humidifier
humidifier
8,210 corpus weight
- hyperboliqu…
hyperboliques
8,208 corpus weight
- hypothyroïd…
hypothyroïdie
8,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huitaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huitaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɥi.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huitaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huitaine is uncommon French at frequency #91,790 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ɥi.tɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
huitaine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is huitaine, spelled H-U-I-T-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de choses de même nature au nombre de huit.
- 2Période de huit jours ; semaine.
- 3Pendulette que l'on ne remonte que tous les huit jours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how huitaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que l’accident est arrivé au moment où, conjointement avec d’autres ouvriers, Vandedebunderie s’occupait à décordeler la bâche d'un wagon de marchandises, à l’extrémité d’un train composé d’une huitaine de voitures chargées, wagon séparé d’un mètre environ du dernier de la rame […]
La consommation d’essence était depuis une huitaine d’heures nettement inférieure à nos estimations, pourtant très tirées.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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