hypothèse
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,202
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
hypothèse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Supposition que l’on fait sans se demander si elle est vraie ou fausse, mais seulement pour en tirer des conséquences à vérifier. Pronounced \i.pɔ.tɛz\. It ranks #3,202 in French word frequency. Often confused with hypothèses and hypothèque.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypothèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.pɔ.tɛz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hypothèse is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.pɔ.tɛz\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,202 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for hypothèse, with forms such as "hhypothèse", "hpyothèse", and "hyopthèse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hypothèses", "hypothèque", 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 hypothèse, spelled H-Y-P-O-T-H-È-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Supposition que l’on fait sans se demander si elle est vraie ou fausse, mais seulement pour en tirer des conséquences à vérifier.
- 2Proposition que l’on avance soit comme point de départ de la démonstration d’un théorème, soit comme donnée d’un problème.
- 3Conjecture, ou ensemble de conjectures, qui permettent d’essayer, par une interprétation anticipée, une explication de certains phénomènes de la nature, ou de faits présents ou passés.
- 4Assemblage de plusieurs suppositions faites pour parvenir plus facilement à l’explication de certains phénomènes; ce qu’on appelle autrement et plus communément : système.
- 5Proposition particulière comprise sous la thèse générale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhypothèse,hpyothèse,hyopthèse,hypohtèse,hypothese,hypothhèse,hypothsèe,hypothèes,hypothèsse,hypotthèse,hypotèhse,hyppothèse,hyptohèse,hyypothèse,yhpothèse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hypothèse
Misspelling Variants of "hypothèse"
Frequency rank: #3,202 in French
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