harlequin
\aʁ.lə.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“harlequin” is uncommon French (frequency #60,851 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,851
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de arlequin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harlequin · harlequin · French
harlequin · rank #60,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,851
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harcelées
Nearest frequency peer: harcelées (-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 « harlequin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hachis
hachis
39,154 corpus weight
- handicapant
handicapant
39,152 corpus weight
- harcelées
harcelées
39,151 corpus weight
- harlequin
harlequin
39,150 corpus weight
- hatch
hatch
39,149 corpus weight
- Hideo
Hideo
39,147 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « harlequin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harlequin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.lə.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « harlequin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
harlequin is uncommon French at frequency #60,851 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.lə.kɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de arlequin.".
harlequin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is harlequin, spelled H-A-R-L-E-Q-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de arlequin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how harlequin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis que l’autre s’évertue à faire ici le harlequin.
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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