aloha
\aˈloha\
The verdict
“aloha” is uncommon French (frequency #57,068 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,068
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sens de l'hospitalité typiquement hawaïen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aloha · aloha · French
aloha · rank #57,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,068
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alleluia
Nearest frequency peer: alleluia (-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 « aloha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Albertini
Albertini
42,935 corpus weight
- alleluia
alleluia
42,934 corpus weight
- aloha
aloha
42,933 corpus weight
- Alpilles
Alpilles
42,932 corpus weight
- amazigh
amazigh
42,931 corpus weight
- amenèrent
amenèrent
42,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aloha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aloha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aˈloha\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aloha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aloha is uncommon French at frequency #57,068 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aˈloha\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sens de l'hospitalité typiquement hawaïen.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aloha in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aloha, spelled A-L-O-H-A.
Definition
- 1sens de l'hospitalité typiquement hawaïen.
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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