ahurissement
\a.y.ʁis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ahurissement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’une personne ahurie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ahurissement · ahurissement · French
ahurissement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahurissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.y.ʁis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ahurissement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ahurissement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.y.ʁis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État d’une personne ahurie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ahurissement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ahurissement, spelled A-H-U-R-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1État d’une personne ahurie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ahurissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chefs de gare ne savaient auquel entendre, les hommes d'équipe étaient dans l'ahurissement. A chaque halte nouvelle, c'était une débandade.
[…]; puis il céda à l'aphasie, s'accota au placard, les bras collés aux cuisses, image vivante de l'animal assailli par un invincible ahurissement.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.