haltérophilie
\al.te.ʁɔ.fi.li\
The verdict
“haltérophilie” is uncommon French (frequency #54,627 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,627
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport visant à soulever des poids et haltères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-halterophilie · haltérophilie · French
haltérophilie · rank #54,627 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,627
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Held
Nearest frequency peer: Held (+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 « haltérophilie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gypsy
gypsy
45,378 corpus weight
- géniteurs
géniteurs
45,377 corpus weight
- haan
haan
45,376 corpus weight
- haltérophil…
haltérophilie
45,374 corpus weight
- Held
Held
45,373 corpus weight
- hummer
hummer
45,371 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haltérophilie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haltérophilie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.te.ʁɔ.fi.li\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #54,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haltérophilie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haltérophilie is uncommon French at frequency #54,627 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.te.ʁɔ.fi.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sport visant à soulever des poids et haltères.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for haltérophilie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is haltérophilie, spelled H-A-L-T-É-R-O-P-H-I-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Sport visant à soulever des poids et haltères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haltérophilie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’haltérophilie est une discipline olympique.
L’haltérophilie est, plus encore que le cyclisme, un sport emblématique du dopage puisqu’il est allé jusqu’à l’autodestruction.
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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