hypertexte
^((h muet))\i.pɛʁ.tɛkst\
The verdict
“hypertexte” is uncommon French (frequency #72,413 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,413
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système de renvois, via des hyperliens permettant de passer directement d’une partie d’un document à une autre, ou d’un document à d’autres documents choisis comme pertinents par l’auteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hypertexte · hypertexte · French
hypertexte · rank #72,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,413
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hypnotise
Nearest frequency peer: hypnotise (+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 « hypertexte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Homologie
Homologie
27,593 corpus weight
- hostellerie
hostellerie
27,592 corpus weight
- hush
hush
27,590 corpus weight
- hypertexte
hypertexte
27,588 corpus weight
- hypnotise
hypnotise
27,587 corpus weight
- illustrait
illustrait
27,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hypertexte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypertexte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\i.pɛʁ.tɛkst\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hypertexte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hypertexte is uncommon French at frequency #72,413 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\i.pɛʁ.tɛkst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for hypertexte in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hypertexte, spelled H-Y-P-E-R-T-E-X-T-E.
Definition
- 1Système de renvois, via des hyperliens permettant de passer directement d’une partie d’un document à une autre, ou d’un document à d’autres documents choisis comme pertinents par l’auteur.
- 2Dans la terminologie de Gérard Genette, tout texte B uni à un texte antérieur A par une relation d’hypertextualité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hypertexte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Il t’expliquerait alors qu’un hypertexte est un texte augmenté de liens qui vont au-delà de ce texte en invitant le lecteur à consulter d’autres textes et, surtout, à en faciliter l’accès, autrement dit que c’est un texte plus puissant qu’un texte, à savoir un hypertexte...
Antonyms
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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