hardi
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,841
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hardi is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui ose beaucoup. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.di\. Often confused with hart and hare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hardi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.di\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hardi is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.di\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,841 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for hardi, with forms such as "ahrdi", "hadri", and "harddi". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hart", "hare", "hari", and more, 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 hardi, spelled H-A-R-D-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui ose beaucoup.
- 2En parlant des choses qui sont faites ou dites hardiment
- 3Qu’il est dangereux ou difficile de soutenir, en parlant de doctrines, d’opinions, etc.
- 4Ferme, intrépide, assuré.
- 5Insolent, effronté.
- 6De certains écrits ou de certains spectacles qui ont quelque chose de risqué, qui choquent les convenances.
- 7Heureusement hasardé.
- 8Conçu, exécuté avec une aisance qui ne dénote ni hésitation ni timidité.
- 9Se dit aussi de certains ouvrages d’art qui ont quelque chose d’extraordinaire et de grand.
- 10Se dit des ouvrages qui, malgré leur masse, présentent élégance et légèreté.
- 11Qui a goût à la chasse
- 12Se dit du coq qui est représenté la patte dextre relevée comme pour attaquer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahrdi,hadri,harddi,harid,harrdi,hhardi,hradi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hardi
Misspelling Variants of "hardi"
Frequency rank: #32,841 in French
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