hagiographie
\a.ʒjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“hagiographie” is uncommon French (frequency #63,041 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,041
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traité sur les choses saintes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hagiographie · hagiographie · French
hagiographie · rank #63,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,041
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hampstead
Nearest frequency peer: Hampstead (+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 « hagiographie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gringo
gringo
36,964 corpus weight
- grossissant
grossissant
36,963 corpus weight
- hagiographie
hagiographie
36,960 corpus weight
- Hampstead
Hampstead
36,959 corpus weight
- harcèlements
harcèlements
36,958 corpus weight
- hedi
hedi
36,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hagiographie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hagiographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʒjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hagiographie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hagiographie is uncommon French at frequency #63,041 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʒjɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hagiographie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hagiographie, spelled H-A-G-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Traité sur les choses saintes.
- 2Biographie d’un ou plusieurs saints.
- 3Biographie très ou trop louangeuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hagiographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce miracle, ignoré du clergé local au XVIIᵉ siècle, est sûrement le produit de l’imagination de certains spécialistes en hagiographie.
Entre tant de particularités que la Bretagne possède en propre, l’hagiographie locale est sûrement la plus singulière. Quand on visite à pied le pays, une chose frappe au premier coup d’œil. Les églises paroissiales, où se fait le culte du dimanche, ne diffèrent pas essentiellement de celles des autres pays. Que si l’on parcourt la campagne, au contraire,…
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); 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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