harder
^((h aspiré))\aʁ.de\
The verdict
“harder” is uncommon French (frequency #71,574 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,574
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attacher des chiens ensemble par un lien commun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harder · harder · French
harder · rank #71,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,574
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harpiste
Nearest frequency peer: harpiste (+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 « harder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- généalogist…
généalogistes
28,434 corpus weight
- haa
haa
28,432 corpus weight
- Hamish
Hamish
28,430 corpus weight
- harder
harder
28,427 corpus weight
- harpiste
harpiste
28,426 corpus weight
- Hilbert
Hilbert
28,423 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « harder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « harder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
harder is uncommon French at frequency #71,574 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for harder in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is harder, spelled H-A-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Attacher des chiens ensemble par un lien commun.
- 2Se réunir en hardes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how harder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se harde et, comme on le dit là-haut, il « se coure ».
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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