Your Highness
The verdict
“Your Highness” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a pronoun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Votre Altesse. Utilisé au lieu du pronom de la deuxième personne du singulier you pour le prince ou la princesse. Ce mot est grammaticalement de la troisième personne du singulier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Your Highness |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \jʊɹ ˈhaɪ.nəs\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Your Highness” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Your Highness is 13 letters long, classified as a pronoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \jʊɹ ˈhaɪ.nəs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Votre Altesse. Utilisé au lieu du pronom de la deuxième personne du singulier you pour le prince ou la princesse. Ce mot est grammaticalement de la troisième personne du singulier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Your Highness 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 Your Highness, spelled Y-O-U-R- -H-I-G-H-N-E-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Votre Altesse. Utilisé au lieu du pronom de la deuxième personne du singulier you pour le prince ou la princesse. Ce mot est grammaticalement de la troisième personne du singulier.
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Using “Your Highness”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-O-U-R- -H-I-G-H-N-E-S-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \jʊɹ ˈhaɪ.nəs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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