Which to use
“home” and “hôte” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,095
- “home” frequency rank
- #6,098
- “hôte” frequency rank
- 12193
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | home | hôte |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Foyer, chez-soi. | Celui qui donne l’hospitalité par humanité, par amitié, par bienveillance. |
Where the eye mixes home and hôte
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. home and hôte follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses home with hôte
A purely visual mix-up. home (^((h aspiré))\om\) and hôte (^((h muet))\ot\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12193, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
home is recorded at frequency rank #6,095, classified as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\om\. hôte is at rank #6,098, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h muet))\ot\.
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 12193, this pair ranks #406,223 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of home vs hôte
Shared letters: eh. Private to "home": mo. Private to "hôte": tô.
"home" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "hôte" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- home ← hhome · hmoe · hoem · ohme
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "home" and "hôte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "home" or "hôte"?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "home" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "hôte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #406,223 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "home" and "hôte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Hatem vs hôte". 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 #406,223 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.