hawaïen
^((h muet))\a.wa.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“hawaïen” is uncommon French (frequency #59,335 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,335
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Hawaï, ses habitants, ou sa langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hawaien · hawaïen · French
hawaïen · rank #59,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,335
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hauteville
Nearest frequency peer: Hauteville (-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 « hawaïen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hartman
Hartman
40,669 corpus weight
- haussier
haussier
40,668 corpus weight
- Hauteville
Hauteville
40,667 corpus weight
- hawaïen
hawaïen
40,666 corpus weight
- hayat
hayat
40,665 corpus weight
- helvétiques
helvétiques
40,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hawaïen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hawaïen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\a.wa.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hawaïen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hawaïen is uncommon French at frequency #59,335 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed ^((h muet))\a.wa.jɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hawaïen has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 hawaïen, spelled H-A-W-A-Ï-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Hawaï, ses habitants, ou sa langue.
- 2Qui produit des coulées de lave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hawaïen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour estimer la fréquentation de cet événement musical gratuit, le collectif de musiciens se base sur les résultats de la buvette et de la restauration qui, à 20 h 30, avait écoulé les 300 bowls hawaïens et autant de sandwichs du monde prévus.
Les habitants de Kauai, une minuscule île de l’archipel hawaïen, se rebellent contre Syngenta, qui en a fait l’un de ses centres pour la culture d’OGM.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).