haillons
^((h aspiré))\a.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“haillons” is uncommon French (frequency #57,306 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,306
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de haillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haillons · haillons · French
haillons · rank #57,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habana
Nearest frequency peer: habana (-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 « haillons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gracias
gracias
42,699 corpus weight
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guinguette
42,698 corpus weight
- habana
habana
42,696 corpus weight
- haillons
haillons
42,695 corpus weight
- hassen
hassen
42,694 corpus weight
- heck
heck
42,692 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haillons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haillons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haillons is uncommon French at frequency #57,306 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de haillon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for haillons, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is haillons, spelled H-A-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de haillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how haillons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et Pierre était si blanc de terreur qu’on eût cru qu’il allait embrenner de peur ses haillons d’apôtre, et que les hommes le prirent en pitié et le tinrent pour fou.
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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