hallo
The verdict
“hallo” is uncommon French (frequency #88,699 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,699
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salut, bonjour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hallo · hallo · French
hallo · rank #88,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,699
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hackeur
Nearest frequency peer: hackeur (-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 « hallo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- H0
H0
11,305 corpus weight
- Habiba
Habiba
11,304 corpus weight
- hackeur
hackeur
11,303 corpus weight
- hallo
hallo
11,302 corpus weight
- halos
halos
11,301 corpus weight
- halt
halt
11,300 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hallo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hallo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hallo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hallo is uncommon French at frequency #88,699 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Salut, bonjour.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hallo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hallo, spelled H-A-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Salut, bonjour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hallo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La répugnance à la conversation était évidente. On n’était pas là pour ça. Tout se passait comme s’il suffisait de se crier hallo entre deux portes, entre deux verres, pour s’estimer satisfait.
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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