huître
\ɥitʁ\
The verdict
“huître” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,642
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mollusque marin bivalve, à la chair translucide, utilisé pour la production de perles et de nacre ou pour la consommation humaine.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “huître” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around huître (IPA \ɥitʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,642 among 109,908 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for huître, with forms such as "hhuître", "huitre", and "hutîre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is huître, spelled H-U-Î-T-R-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhuître
- huitre
- hutîre
- huîrte
- huîter
- huîtrre
- huîttre
- hîutre
- uhître
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of huître - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “huître”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-U-Î-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɥitʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “hutte” - see the side-by-side comparison. huître vs hutte
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.