Harbin
\aʁ.bin\
The verdict
“Harbin” is uncommon French (frequency #73,218 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,218
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Heilongjiang, en Chine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harbin · Harbin · French
Harbin · rank #73,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,218
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH halieutique
Nearest frequency peer: halieutique (-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 « Harbin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- génisse
génisse
26,787 corpus weight
- halieutique
halieutique
26,784 corpus weight
- Harbin
Harbin
26,783 corpus weight
- harpie
harpie
26,782 corpus weight
- Haschisch
Haschisch
26,780 corpus weight
- Hass
Hass
26,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Harbin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Harbin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.bin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Harbin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Harbin is uncommon French at frequency #73,218 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \aʁ.bin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du Heilongjiang, en Chine.".
Harbin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Harbin, spelled H-A-R-B-I-N.
Definition
- 1Ville du Heilongjiang, en Chine.
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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