hallier
^((h aspiré))\a.lje\
The verdict
“hallier” is uncommon French (frequency #86,773 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,773
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Buisson touffu, fourré où se retire le gibier, bien couvert de broussailles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hallier · hallier · French
hallier · rank #86,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,773
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hammon
Nearest frequency peer: Hammon (+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 « hallier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- haben
haben
13,231 corpus weight
- hackeurs
hackeurs
13,230 corpus weight
- hallier
hallier
13,228 corpus weight
- Hammon
Hammon
13,227 corpus weight
- handballeurs
handballeurs
13,226 corpus weight
- hangout
hangout
13,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hallier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hallier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.lje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hallier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hallier is uncommon French at frequency #86,773 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Buisson touffu, fourré où se retire le gibier, bien couvert de broussailles.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hallier in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hallier, spelled H-A-L-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Buisson touffu, fourré où se retire le gibier, bien couvert de broussailles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hallier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est ici! et déjà, dans l'épaisseur des halliers, qu'éclaire à peine l'œil phosphorique du chat sauvage tapi sous les ramées.
Pressons le pas, alors, je ne veux pas être surpris par la nuit dans ces halliers.
This word in other languages
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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