Haroun
\a.ʁun\
The verdict
“Haroun” is uncommon French (frequency #52,730 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,730
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom arabe masculin
Corpus desk
Index FR-haroun · Haroun · French
Haroun · rank #52,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,730
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haussa
Nearest frequency peer: haussa (+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 « Haroun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gélules
gélules
47,275 corpus weight
- Götze
Götze
47,273 corpus weight
- Haroun
Haroun
47,271 corpus weight
- haussa
haussa
47,270 corpus weight
- haussant
haussant
47,269 corpus weight
- haïtiennes
haïtiennes
47,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Haroun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Haroun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁun\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Haroun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Haroun is uncommon French at frequency #52,730 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.ʁun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom arabe masculin".
Zero misspellings are on record for Haroun in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Haroun, spelled H-A-R-O-U-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom arabe masculin
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Haroun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est qu’en 1712 que parurent les deux tomes suivants, qui renferment l’« Histoire d’Aladin », immensément célèbre aujourd’hui, et « Les aventures du calife Haroun al-Rachid », un personnage emblématique du recueil.
Un autre Cheykh Al-Jabal est apparu, répondant au nom de Haroun Al-Assad…
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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