Hainan
^((h aspiré))\aj.nan\
The verdict
“Hainan” is uncommon French (frequency #79,371 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,371
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province insulaire du sud de la Chine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hainan · Hainan · French
Hainan · rank #79,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,371
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH gérera
Nearest frequency peer: gérera (-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 « Hainan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guerreiro
guerreiro
20,635 corpus weight
- géochimie
géochimie
20,632 corpus weight
- gérera
gérera
20,631 corpus weight
- Hainan
Hainan
20,630 corpus weight
- Hashimoto
Hashimoto
20,625 corpus weight
- haya
haya
20,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hainan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hainan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aj.nan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hainan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hainan is uncommon French at frequency #79,371 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\aj.nan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Province insulaire du sud de la Chine.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Hainan in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Hainan, spelled H-A-I-N-A-N.
Definition
- 1Province insulaire du sud de la Chine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hainan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils franchirent l’océan Indien, remontant sans fin vers le nord-est, firent une halte sur l’île de Ceylan, avant d’enfiler le détroit de Malacca et croiser au large de Singapour, puis ils gagnèrent le golfe de Siam avant, d’enfin, atteindre l’île d’Hainan dans le golfe du Tonkin.
Synonyms
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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