harcèlements

^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\

/^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“harcèlements” is uncommon French (frequency #63,043 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,043
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de harcèlement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-harcelements · harcèlements · French

harcèlements · rank #63,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,043
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hampstead

Nearest frequency peer: Hampstead (-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 « harcèlements »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « harcèlements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for harcèlements
PropertyValue
Headwordharcèlements
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#63,043
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « harcèlements » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).harcèlementstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Hampstead » (#63,042), « hagiographie » (#63,041), « hedi » (#63,045). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « harcèlements » est au #63,043. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

harcèlements is uncommon French at frequency #63,043 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de harcèlement.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for harcèlements, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is harcèlements, spelled H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de harcèlement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how harcèlements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une femme qui ose prétendre à un poste pareil, sans coucher, en résistant à tous les harcèlements possibles et imaginables, quel scandale !

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "harcèlements"?
"harcèlements" is spelled H-A-R-C-È-L-E-M-E-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\.
What does "harcèlements" mean?
As a noun, "harcèlements" means: Pluriel de harcèlement.
How do you pronounce "harcèlements"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "harcèlements" is ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.sɛl.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "harcèlements" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "harcèlements", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list