hantevshautesTell them apart

Quick tell: hante is a verb, hautes is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hante” is a verb and “hautes” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#21,341
“hante” frequency rank
#3,460
“hautes” frequency rank
24801
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hante hautes
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de hanter. Feux de route.

Letter map: hante vs hautes

Shared letters muted; letters that set hante and hautes apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
hante
6 ch
hautes

Part-of-speech tell for hante / hautes

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hante is averb and hautesanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24801, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hante is recorded at frequency rank #21,341, classified as averb, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃t\. hautes is at rank #3,460, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 24801, this pair ranks #344,537 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hante vs hautes

Shared letters: aeht. Private to "hante": n. Private to "hautes": su.

"hante" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "hautes" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hanteahnte · hanet · hannte · hantte · hatne · hhante · hnate
  • hautesahutes · hatues · hauets · hautess · hautse · hauttes · hhautes · huates

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hante" for "hautes" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hante" is a verb and "hautes" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "hante" vs "hautes" - which ranks higher?
"hautes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,460 in our French list, against #21,341 for "hante". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hante" and "hautes".

  • Full dictionary entry for "hante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hautes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #344,537 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hante" and "hautes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hante vs Hatem". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #344,537 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list