halt
\halt\
The verdict
“halt” is uncommon French (frequency #88,701 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a particle. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,701
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Particule modale qui souligne normalité, coutume ou constance, souvent avec un air de résignation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-halt · halt · French
halt · rank #88,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,701
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH halos
Nearest frequency peer: halos (-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 « halt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hackeur
hackeur
11,303 corpus weight
- hallo
hallo
11,302 corpus weight
- halos
halos
11,301 corpus weight
- halt
halt
11,300 corpus weight
- hambourgeois
hambourgeois
11,299 corpus weight
- Hardwick
Hardwick
11,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « halt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | halt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| IPA | \halt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « halt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
halt is uncommon French at frequency #88,701 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aparticle, transcribed \halt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Particule modale qui souligne normalité, coutume ou constance, souvent avec un air de résignation.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for halt, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is halt, spelled H-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1Particule modale qui souligne normalité, coutume ou constance, souvent avec un air de résignation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how halt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es sollte ein lustiger Sonntag auf der Wiesn werden, die Studentin Luisa T. (Name geändert) und ihr Freund hatten sich mit zwei Bekannten im Augustiner-Festzelt verabredet. (...) Gegen Abend setzten sich drei Herren zu ihnen an den Tisch, "man hat sich halt zugeprostet", erzählt Luisa T. vor Gericht, "sonst nichts".
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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