Which to use
“honte” and “hotte” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,083
- “honte” frequency rank
- #39,336
- “hotte” frequency rank
- 41419
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | honte | hotte |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Déshonneur, opprobre, humiliation (ce qui est le sens étymologique et ancien). | Sorte de panier, ouvrage du vannier, qui a des bretelles et qu’on porte sur le dos. |
Where the eye mixes honte and hotte
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. honte and hotte follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: honte vs hotte
A purely visual mix-up. honte (^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\) and hotte (^((h aspiré))\ɔt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - n in “honte” becomes t in “hotte”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41419, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
honte is recorded at frequency rank #2,083, classified as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃t\. hotte is at rank #39,336, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔt\.
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 41419, this pair ranks #233,259 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of honte vs hotte
Shared letters: ehot. Private to "honte": n. Private to "hotte": -.
"honte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "hotte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "honte" and "hotte" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "honte" or "hotte"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "honte" and "hotte" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "honte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "hotte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #233,259 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "honte" and "hotte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hotte vs huttes". 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 #233,259 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.