hypothèque
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,154
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
hypothèque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Accord entre celui qui emprunte de l’argent (le propriétaire) et celui qui fournit l’argent (le créancier). Si le montant d’argent (qui est égal à la valeur de la propriété) n’est pas remboursé, le... Pronounced \i.pɔ.tɛk\. Often confused with hypothèse and hypothèques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypothèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.pɔ.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hypothèque is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.pɔ.tɛk\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,154 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for hypothèque, with forms such as "hhypothèque", "hpyothèque", and "hyopthèque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "hypothèse", "hypothèques", "hypothéquer", 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 hypothèque, spelled H-Y-P-O-T-H-È-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Accord entre celui qui emprunte de l’argent (le propriétaire) et celui qui fournit l’argent (le créancier). Si le montant d’argent (qui est égal à la valeur de la propriété) n’est pas remboursé, le créancier peut faire réaliser le bien, généralement par vente aux enchères, afin d'obtenir la somme qui lui est due. (En jargon juridique : droit réel qui grève les immeubles affectés à la sûreté, à l’acquittement d’une obligation, d’une dette, et qui les suit en quelques mains qu’ils passent.)
- 2Charge figurée qui reste après des actions précédentes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhypothèque,hpyothèque,hyopthèque,hypohtèque,hypotheque,hypothhèque,hypothqèue,hypothèqeu,hypothèqque,hypothèuqe,hypotthèque,hypotèhque,hyppothèque,hyptohèque,hyypothèque,yhpothèque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hypothèque
Misspelling Variants of "hypothèque"
Frequency rank: #17,154 in French
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