haman
^((h aspiré))\a.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“haman” is uncommon French (frequency #96,996 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,996
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fine toile de coton originaire du Bengale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haman · haman · French
haman · rank #96,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,996
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hanno
Nearest frequency peer: hanno (+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 « haman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Habe
Habe
3,008 corpus weight
- Hagondange
Hagondange
3,007 corpus weight
- haman
haman
3,005 corpus weight
- hanno
hanno
3,004 corpus weight
- hardstyle
hardstyle
3,002 corpus weight
- haïssais
haïssais
3,001 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haman is uncommon French at frequency #96,996 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fine toile de coton originaire du Bengale.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for haman, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is haman, spelled H-A-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Fine toile de coton originaire du Bengale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how haman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les toiles d'Aman, ou haman, qu'il faudrait nommer toiles de Hamat, ville où elles se fabriquent.
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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