haltère
\al.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“haltère” is uncommon French (frequency #87,708 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,708
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Balancier, masse de pierre ou de plomb dont on se sert pour faire le contrepoids dans les exercices gymnastiques, comme en dansant sur la corde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haltere · haltère · French
haltère · rank #87,708 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,708
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hanane
Nearest frequency peer: Hanane (+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 « haltère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Haldeman
Haldeman
12,296 corpus weight
- haltère
haltère
12,293 corpus weight
- Hanane
Hanane
12,292 corpus weight
- harfang
harfang
12,291 corpus weight
- harki
harki
12,290 corpus weight
- harmonia
harmonia
12,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haltère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haltère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haltère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haltère is uncommon French at frequency #87,708 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
haltère has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 haltère, spelled H-A-L-T-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Balancier, masse de pierre ou de plomb dont on se sert pour faire le contrepoids dans les exercices gymnastiques, comme en dansant sur la corde.
- 2Masses pesantes dont on se sert pour développer la force musculaire dans les exercices de musculation.
- 3Exercice avec cet instrument.
- 4Deux masses fixes et ponctuelles ou assimilables comme telles.
- 5Objet en forme d'haltère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haltère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’exercice des haltères.
Le baron surprit aussi le regard sarcastique que M. Élie jetait sur un petit haltère de trois kilos, posé dans un coin de la chambre, et que M. Octave soulevait chaque matin trois ou quatre fois.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).