harmonium
\aʁ.mɔ.njɔm\
The verdict
“harmonium” is uncommon French (frequency #50,880 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,880
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit orgue où les tuyaux sont remplacés par des anches libres qui répondent aux touches d’un clavier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harmonium · harmonium · French
harmonium · rank #50,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,880
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH harmonieuses
Nearest frequency peer: harmonieuses (-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 « harmonium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- halage
halage
49,124 corpus weight
- Hamburg
Hamburg
49,123 corpus weight
- harmonieuses
harmonieuses
49,122 corpus weight
- harmonium
harmonium
49,121 corpus weight
- Haïfa
Haïfa
49,120 corpus weight
- heil
heil
49,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « harmonium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harmonium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.mɔ.njɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « harmonium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
harmonium is uncommon French at frequency #50,880 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.mɔ.njɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit orgue où les tuyaux sont remplacés par des anches libres qui répondent aux touches d’un clavier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for harmonium, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is harmonium, spelled H-A-R-M-O-N-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Petit orgue où les tuyaux sont remplacés par des anches libres qui répondent aux touches d’un clavier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how harmonium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait encore un harmonium sur lequel étaient jetés des tapis quelconques, et, dans un coin, était placé le lit pliant de l'aide de camp de Bennigsen.
Et subitement, Durtal se retourna. Dans la tribune, un harmonium soutenait les répons d’inoubliables voix.
This word in other languages
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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