huître
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,642
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
huître is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mollusque marin bivalve, à la chair translucide, utilisé pour la production de perles et de nacre ou pour la consommation humaine. Pronounced \ɥitʁ\. Often confused with hutte and huîtres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huître |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɥitʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for huître is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɥitʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,642 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for huître, with forms such as "hhuître", "huitre", and "hutîre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hutte", "huîtres", "huit", and more, 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 huître, spelled H-U-Î-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mollusque marin bivalve, à la chair translucide, utilisé pour la production de perles et de nacre ou pour la consommation humaine.
- 2Personne peu intelligente
- 3Crachat de mucus, de couleur verdâtre si le cracheur est atteint d’une inflammation des bronches.
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de conque, coquille, coquille Saint-Jacques et vannet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhuître,huitre,hutîre,huîrte,huîter,huîtrre,huîttre,hîutre,uhître
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for huître
Misspelling Variants of "huître"
Frequency rank: #30,642 in French
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