hannetons
^((h aspiré))\an.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“hannetons” is uncommon French (frequency #68,334 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,334
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hanneton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hannetons · hannetons · French
hannetons · rank #68,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,334
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hanlon
Nearest frequency peer: Hanlon (-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 « hannetons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gómez
Gómez
31,671 corpus weight
- Habyarimana
Habyarimana
31,670 corpus weight
- hallucinants
hallucinants
31,669 corpus weight
- Hanlon
Hanlon
31,668 corpus weight
- hannetons
hannetons
31,667 corpus weight
- hantait
hantait
31,666 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hannetons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hannetons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\an.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hannetons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hannetons is uncommon French at frequency #68,334 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\an.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hanneton.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hannetons, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hannetons, spelled H-A-N-N-E-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hanneton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hannetons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans cette voie et au moyen de primes en argent payées aux ramasseurs, MM. Lalouette, de Barbery (Oise), Reisel, à Écorchebœuf (Seine-Inférieure), et l’administration préfectorale du département de la Somme, paraissent avoir obtenu de bons résultats, mais si l’on peut donner le conseil d’imiter ces bons exemples, il est absolument impossible d’aller jusqu…
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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