haïssant
^((h aspiré))\a.i.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“haïssant” is uncommon French (frequency #91,772 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,772
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de haïr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haissant · haïssant · French
haïssant · rank #91,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,772
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hedjaz
Nearest frequency peer: Hedjaz (+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 « haïssant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Harrods
Harrods
8,233 corpus weight
- Haruna
Haruna
8,232 corpus weight
- hatt
hatt
8,231 corpus weight
- haïssant
haïssant
8,229 corpus weight
- Hedjaz
Hedjaz
8,228 corpus weight
- Heft
Heft
8,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haïssant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haïssant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.i.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haïssant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haïssant is uncommon French at frequency #91,772 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.i.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de haïr.".
haïssant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 haïssant, spelled H-A-Ï-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de haïr.
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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