Hut
\huːt\
The verdict
“Hut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,103) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,103
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chapeau, coiffe d’homme ou de femme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hut · Hut · French
Hut · rank #45,103 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,103
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH huard
Nearest frequency peer: huard (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Hut »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- hollywoodie…
hollywoodienne
54,902 corpus weight
- horst
horst
54,901 corpus weight
- huard
huard
54,899 corpus weight
- Hut
Hut
54,898 corpus weight
- imbu
imbu
54,897 corpus weight
- immune
immune
54,896 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Hut » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Hut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \huːt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Hut »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Hut is neighbouring look-alikes ("Hz", "hy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \huːt\. Frequency #45,103 among 1,969 “H” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Hut in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Hz", "hy", "hutu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Hut, spelled H-U-T.
Definition
- 1Chapeau, coiffe d’homme ou de femme.
- 2Carpophore, partie supérieure de certains champignons appelée aussi tête ou chapeau.
- 3Chapiteau d’une cornue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
»Mein Vater!« rief Villefort. »Ich habe mich also nicht geirrt; ich vermutete, daß Sie es wären!« »Wenn du das vermutet hast«, entgegnete der Ankömmling, indem er seinen Stock in einen Winkel stellte und den Hut auf einen Sessel legte, »so erlaube ich mir, dir zu sagen, mein lieber Gérard, daß es von dir nicht liebenswürdig ist, mich so lange warten zu la…
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hut", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).