hassi
The verdict
“hassi” is uncommon French (frequency #74,055 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,055
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puits dans le désert du Sahara.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hassi · hassi · French
hassi · rank #74,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,055
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Harpies
Nearest frequency peer: Harpies (-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 « hassi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- génitrice
génitrice
25,950 corpus weight
- géraient
géraient
25,949 corpus weight
- Hannes
Hannes
25,948 corpus weight
- Harpies
Harpies
25,947 corpus weight
- hassi
hassi
25,946 corpus weight
- hassidiques
hassidiques
25,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hassi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hassi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hassi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hassi is uncommon French at frequency #74,055 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Puits dans le désert du Sahara.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hassi in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hassi, spelled H-A-S-S-I.
Definition
- 1Puits dans le désert du Sahara.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hassi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre les buissons, il y avait un de ces hassi nombreux du Sahara, perdus souvent en dehors de toutes les routes, puits étroits et profonds, que seuls les guides connaissent.
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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