haïkus
^((h aspiré))\aj.ku\
The verdict
“haïkus” is uncommon French (frequency #83,928 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,928
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de haïku.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haikus · haïkus · French
haïkus · rank #83,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,928
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Havelange
Nearest frequency peer: Havelange (-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 « haïkus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hautot
Hautot
16,075 corpus weight
- Havelange
Havelange
16,074 corpus weight
- haïkus
haïkus
16,073 corpus weight
- helo
helo
16,072 corpus weight
- hermétisme
hermétisme
16,071 corpus weight
- Hesbaye
Hesbaye
16,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haïkus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haïkus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aj.ku\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haïkus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haïkus is uncommon French at frequency #83,928 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\aj.ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de haïku.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for haïkus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 haïkus, spelled H-A-Ï-K-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de haïku.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haïkus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les haïkus regroupés dans cette partie ont été écrits à l’occasion de telles retraites, réalisées la plupart du temps en silence, et pour la dernière retraite seul, dans un petit ermitage à côté d’un monastère zen.
– Je cherche à peindre une femme. L’expression d’une femme. J’avoue que, pour le moment, c’est la panne sèche. La peinture échoue. Seuls les haïkus fonctionnent. En dix-sept syllabes, je traduis mieux l’évanescence des choses.
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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