harcèlement
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,349
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
harcèlement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tourments occasionnés par d’incessantes poursuites orchestrées, insignifiantes prises isolément. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛ.lə.mɑ̃\. It ranks #5,349 in French word frequency. Often confused with harcèlent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harcèlement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛ.lə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for harcèlement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛ.lə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,349 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for harcèlement, with forms such as "ahrcèlement", "hacrèlement", and "harccèlement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "harcèlent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is harcèlement, spelled H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tourments occasionnés par d’incessantes poursuites orchestrées, insignifiantes prises isolément.
- 2Technique militaire consistant à épuiser l’adversaire par de multiples attaques sporadiques.
- 3Critiques et attaques incessantes, et souvent gratuites, sources de stress, d’énervement, de mal-être.
- 4Pression exercée de manière constante à l’encontre d’une personne au sein d’une collectivité hiérarchisée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahrcèlement,hacrèlement,harccèlement,harcelement,harclèement,harcèelment,harcèleemnt,harcèlemennt,harcèlementt,harcèlemetn,harcèlemment,harcèlemnet,harcèllement,harcèlmeent,harrcèlement,harèclement,hharcèlement,hracèlement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for harcèlement
Misspelling Variants of "harcèlement"
Frequency rank: #5,349 in French
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Nearby French words
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