Which to use
“hutte” and “huttes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #33,288
- “hutte” frequency rank
- #44,495
- “huttes” frequency rank
- 77783
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hutte | huttes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Petite cabane faite de bois, de terre, de paille, etc. | Pluriel de hutte. |
Same sound, different letters: hutte vs huttes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. hutte runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against huttes's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: hutte vs huttes
This is the hard kind. hutte and huttes are pronounced identically (^((h aspiré))\yt\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “hutte” sits inside “huttes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77783, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hutte is recorded at frequency rank #33,288, classified as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\yt\. huttes is at rank #44,495, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\yt\.
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 77783, this pair ranks #27,482 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of hutte vs huttes
Shared letters: ehtu. Private to "hutte": -. Private to "huttes": s.
"hutte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "huttes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "hutte" for "huttes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "hutte" vs "huttes" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "hutte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "huttes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #27,482 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "hutte" and "huttes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "haltes 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 #27,482 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.