harde
^((h aspiré))\aʁd\
The verdict
“harde” is uncommon French (frequency #89,785 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,785
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troupeau de bêtes, en particulier de ruminants sauvages. Ce terme est souvent utilisé en France pour évoquer un groupe de cervidés etc., mais selon les pays de multiples animaux rentrent dans le ch...
Corpus desk
Index FR-harde · harde · French
harde · rank #89,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,785
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH happe
Nearest frequency peer: happe (-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 « harde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hairy
hairy
10,220 corpus weight
- Hajar
Hajar
10,219 corpus weight
- happe
happe
10,217 corpus weight
- harde
harde
10,216 corpus weight
- hardes
hardes
10,215 corpus weight
- Haywood
Haywood
10,213 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « harde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « harde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
harde is uncommon French at frequency #89,785 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\aʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for harde, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is harde, spelled H-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Troupeau de bêtes, en particulier de ruminants sauvages. Ce terme est souvent utilisé en France pour évoquer un groupe de cervidés etc., mais selon les pays de multiples animaux rentrent dans le champ d’application du mot harde.
- 2Troupe d’oiseaux, le plus souvent de proie.
- 3Meute de chiens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how harde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nulle harde de ruminants ne venait se plonger dans les eaux de l’oued.
Une harde de pachydermes s’avançait d’un lourd balancement, dans un concert de grognements paisibles qui ne semblait nullement menaçant. Parfois un barrissement tonitruant s’élevait au-dessus du troupeau.
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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