haw
\hɔː\
The verdict
“haw” is uncommon French (frequency #75,758 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,758
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instruction pour faire tourner un cheval à gauche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haw · haw · French
haw · rank #75,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,758
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hassani
Nearest frequency peer: Hassani (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « haw »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hamidou
Hamidou
24,248 corpus weight
- harmonisées
harmonisées
24,246 corpus weight
- Hassani
Hassani
24,245 corpus weight
- haw
haw
24,243 corpus weight
- Herculanum
Herculanum
24,240 corpus weight
- hiberner
hiberner
24,239 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haw » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \hɔː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haw » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haw is uncommon French at frequency #75,758 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \hɔː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instruction pour faire tourner un cheval à gauche.".
haw doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is haw, spelled H-A-W.
Definition
- 1Instruction pour faire tourner un cheval à gauche.
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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