ahuri
\a.y.ʁi\
The verdict
“ahuri” is uncommon French (frequency #55,037 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,037
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est pantois, stupéfait, déconcerté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ahuri · ahuri · French
ahuri · rank #55,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,037
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agua
Nearest frequency peer: agua (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ahuri »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affrontaient
affrontaient
44,966 corpus weight
- agua
agua
44,965 corpus weight
- ahuri
ahuri
44,964 corpus weight
- aigrie
aigrie
44,963 corpus weight
- Albéric
Albéric
44,962 corpus weight
- alcoolo
alcoolo
44,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ahuri » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahuri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.y.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ahuri » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ahuri is uncommon French at frequency #55,037 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.y.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ahuri, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ahuri, spelled A-H-U-R-I.
Definition
- 1Qui est pantois, stupéfait, déconcerté.
- 2Qui est ou paraît stupide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ahuri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La société [de M. Genès] nous était devenue tout à fait intolérable. […] la mesure était comble, nous en étions ahuris, abrutis.
“Sur ma foi, se dit Passepartout, un peu ahuri tout d’abord, j’ai connu chez Mme Tussaud des bonshommes aussi vivants que mon nouveau maîtr”
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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