harpie
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#73,219
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
harpie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Monstre fabuleux, qu’on représentait avec des ailes, un visage de femme, un corps de vautour et des ongles crochus, et qu’on imaginait être extrêmement vorace. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.pi\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harpie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.pi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for harpie is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.pi\. Corpus data places it at rank #73,219 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for harpie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
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 harpie, spelled H-A-R-P-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Monstre fabuleux, qu’on représentait avec des ailes, un visage de femme, un corps de vautour et des ongles crochus, et qu’on imaginait être extrêmement vorace.
- 2Ceux qui sont avides du bien d’autrui ou qui sont âpres au gain.
- 3Femme méchante, criarde et acariâtre.
- 4Espèce de vautour ou d’aigle forestier d’Amérique du Sud, Harpia harpyja.
- 5Meuble représentant le monstre fabuleux du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle adopte généralement la position de l’aigle, c’est-à-dire posé de front, les ailes éployées, pattes écartées.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #73,219 in French
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