hCG
The verdict
“hCG” is uncommon French (frequency #79,378 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,378
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hormone chorionique gonadotrope humaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hcg · hCG · French
hCG · rank #79,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,378
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haya
Nearest frequency peer: haya (-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 « hCG »
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 « hCG » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hCG |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #79,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hCG » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hCG is uncommon French at frequency #79,378 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormone chorionique gonadotrope humaine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hCG, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hCG, spelled H-C-G.
Definition
- 1Hormone chorionique gonadotrope humaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hCG appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En cas de grossesse, l’échantillon d’urine contient de l’hCG : les anticorps réagissent avec l’hCG et ne peuvent pas lier les globules rouges.
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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