hypotenuse
\haɪˈpɒtənjuːz\
The verdict
“hypotenuse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hypoténuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hypotenuse · hypotenuse · French
hypotenuse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypotenuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \haɪˈpɒtənjuːz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
hypotenuse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \haɪˈpɒtənjuːz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hypoténuse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hypotenuse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hypotenuse, spelled H-Y-P-O-T-E-N-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Hypoténuse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.