haranguer
^((h aspiré))\a.ʁɑ̃.ɡe\
The verdict
“haranguer” is uncommon French (frequency #90,792 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,792
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une harangue à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haranguer · haranguer · French
haranguer · rank #90,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,792
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harnachement
Nearest frequency peer: harnachement (+2 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 « haranguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- grisonnant
grisonnant
9,217 corpus weight
- grondait
grondait
9,216 corpus weight
- grèvent
grèvent
9,214 corpus weight
- haranguer
haranguer
9,209 corpus weight
- harnachement
harnachement
9,207 corpus weight
- hennin
hennin
9,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haranguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haranguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.ʁɑ̃.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haranguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haranguer is uncommon French at frequency #90,792 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.ʁɑ̃.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for haranguer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is haranguer, spelled H-A-R-A-N-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une harangue à.
- 2Faire une harangue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haranguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là, tous les ans, au dimanche des Rameaux, l’évêque montait en chaire et il haranguait les fidèles rassemblés dans la Cathédrale, en ces termes: […].
Dans les cabarets et dans les foires, il haranguait les paysans, et leur promettait la suppression de la robot (corvée) et celle de l'impôt sur le sel et sur le tabac.
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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