harangue
^((h aspiré))\a.ʁɑ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“harangue” is uncommon French (frequency #63,813 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,813
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discours fait à une assemblée, à un prince ou à quelque autre personne élevée en dignité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harangue · harangue · French
harangue · rank #63,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,813
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hallucinantes
Nearest frequency peer: hallucinantes (-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 « harangue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hafez
Hafez
36,191 corpus weight
- hallucinant…
hallucinantes
36,189 corpus weight
- harangue
harangue
36,188 corpus weight
- harmonise
harmonise
36,187 corpus weight
- heer
heer
36,186 corpus weight
- Hobson
Hobson
36,185 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « harangue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harangue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.ʁɑ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « harangue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
harangue is uncommon French at frequency #63,813 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.ʁɑ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for harangue in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is harangue, spelled H-A-R-A-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Discours fait à une assemblée, à un prince ou à quelque autre personne élevée en dignité.
- 2Discours ennuyeux ; longue remontrance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how harangue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi, les harangues des princes, les remontrances des ministres, y tiennent-elles une grande place.
Le Béarnais se mit à rire; […]. La voiture ne s'arrêta pas, car il tombait une petite pluie fine, […], et on avait déjà perdu beaucoup de temps à écouter la harangue des notables de Sainte-Menehould ; mais Henri IV fit prendre les placets des verriers, et peu de jours après leur accorda de nouvelles lettres patentes.
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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