maison hantée
\mɛ.zɔ̃ ɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“maison hantée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Maison (ou château, vieille bâtisse, usine désaffectée, etc..) qui passe pour être visitée par des esprits, des fantômes, des entités et autres forces surnaturelles. On dit qu'elle est le théâtre d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maison hantée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.zɔ̃ ɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maison hantée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maison hantée is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.zɔ̃ ɑ̃.te\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for maison hantée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 maison hantée, spelled M-A-I-S-O-N- -H-A-N-T-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maison (ou château, vieille bâtisse, usine désaffectée, etc..) qui passe pour être visitée par des esprits, des fantômes, des entités et autres forces surnaturelles. On dit qu'elle est le théâtre de phénomènes étranges et inexpliqués, supposés surnaturels ou paranormaux.
- 2Attraction foraine. Parcours ludique, où l’on effraie les touristes avec des apparitions de fantômes.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-S-O-N- -H-A-N-T-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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