hardie
^((h aspiré))\aʁ.di\
The verdict
“hardie” is uncommon French (frequency #59,331 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,331
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de hardi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hardie · hardie · French
hardie · rank #59,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,331
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH handi
Nearest frequency peer: handi (-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 « hardie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gévaudan
Gévaudan
40,673 corpus weight
- hail
hail
40,672 corpus weight
- handi
handi
40,671 corpus weight
- hardie
hardie
40,670 corpus weight
- Hartman
Hartman
40,669 corpus weight
- haussier
haussier
40,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hardie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hardie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.di\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hardie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hardie is uncommon French at frequency #59,331 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de hardi.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hardie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hardie, spelled H-A-R-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de hardi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hardie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hardie navigatrice, notre timonière préfère personnellement la solution maritime à la solution fluviale, mais, amoureuse, elle est soucieuse du bien être de son tendre époux de tabellion, qui n’a pas le pied marin et qui a une horreur consommée des coups de chien.
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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