hager

noun

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The verdict

“hager” is uncommon French (frequency #70,697 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,697
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bézoard.

Corpus desk

Index FR-hager · hager · French

hager · rank #70,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,697
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH Haenel

Nearest frequency peer: Haenel (-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 « hager »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hager » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for hager
PropertyValue
Headwordhager
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#70,697
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « hager » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).hagertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Haenel » (#70,696), « haggis » (#70,698), « hamada » (#70,699). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « hager » est au #70,697. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

hager is uncommon French at frequency #70,697 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bézoard.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hager, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hager, spelled H-A-G-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bézoard.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how hager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La pierre Bezar, dit-il, a plusieurs noms. Car les Arabes l'appellent hager, les Perses bezaar, les Hebrieux belzaar.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hager"?
"hager" is spelled H-A-G-E-R.
What does "hager" mean?
As a noun, "hager" means: Bézoard.
What language does "hager" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hager", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

griot#70,689Helle#70,709gimme#70,675fraie#70,658

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list