haim
^((h aspiré))\ɛ̃\
The verdict
“haim” is uncommon French (frequency #65,982 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,982
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crochet de l’hameçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haim · haim · French
haim · rank #65,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,982
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Haag
Nearest frequency peer: Haag (-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 « haim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- groseille
groseille
34,022 corpus weight
- guérisse
guérisse
34,021 corpus weight
- Haag
Haag
34,020 corpus weight
- haim
haim
34,019 corpus weight
- happened
happened
34,017 corpus weight
- hardiment
hardiment
34,016 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haim is uncommon French at frequency #65,982 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Crochet de l’hameçon.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for haim, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is haim, spelled H-A-I-M.
Definition
- 1Crochet de l’hameçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on se sert de ces menises pour amorcer les haims , comme la plupart sont petits, on est presque toujours obligé de les broquer par les yeux […]
L’anguille chien est très-goulue […] Lorsqu’elle est prise à l’hameçon, on remarque qu’elle a avalé l’haim de manière à le faire parvenir jusqu’à l’œsophage, tandis que les anguilles ordinaires ne sont retenues avec l’hameçon que par la partie antérieure de leur palais.
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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