harpons
\aʁ.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“harpons” is uncommon French (frequency #56,011 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,011
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de harpon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-harpons · harpons · French
harpons · rank #56,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,011
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 109,908
- PHOTO-FINISH hameçons
Nearest frequency peer: hameçons (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “harpons”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- généralissi…
généralissime
43,995 corpus weight
- Géraud
Géraud
43,994 corpus weight
- hameçons
hameçons
43,992 corpus weight
- harpons
harpons
43,990 corpus weight
- Haus
Haus
43,988 corpus weight
- haussière
haussière
43,987 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “harpons” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harpons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “harpons” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
harpons is uncommon French at frequency #56,011 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.pɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de harpon.".
harpons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is harpons, spelled H-A-R-P-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de harpon.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "harpons", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.