haya
\ɛ.ja\
The verdict
“haya” is uncommon French (frequency #79,377 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,377
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe hayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haya · haya · French
haya · rank #79,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,377
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hashimoto
Nearest frequency peer: Hashimoto (-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 « haya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hashimoto
Hashimoto
20,625 corpus weight
- haya
haya
20,624 corpus weight
- hCG
hCG
20,623 corpus weight
- Hedwige
Hedwige
20,622 corpus weight
- Helms
Helms
20,621 corpus weight
- hexagones
hexagones
20,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haya is uncommon French at frequency #79,377 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe hayer.".
haya doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is haya, spelled H-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe hayer.
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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