haka
The verdict
“haka” is an uncommon French word, ranked #80,273 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #80,273
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Danse chantée maorie de Nouvelle-Zélande exécutée lors de rituels ou de manifestations sportives, rendue notamment célèbre par l'équipe de rugby des All Blacks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.ka\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “haka” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for haka is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\a.ka\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,273 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for haka in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is haka, spelled H-A-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Danse chantée maorie de Nouvelle-Zélande exécutée lors de rituels ou de manifestations sportives, rendue notamment célèbre par l'équipe de rugby des All Blacks.
- 2Toute danse chantée rituelle du Pacifique Sud, même si en dehors de la Nouvelle-Zélande celle-ci porte d'autres noms : le cibi aux Fidji, le siva tau aux Samoa, le kailao aux Tonga.
Frequency rank: #80,273 in French
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Using “haka”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-A-K-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h aspiré))\a.ka\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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