headline
\ˈhɛd.laɪn\
The verdict
“headline” is uncommon French (frequency #99,184 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,184
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manchette, indication en gros caractères destinées à frapper l’attention du lecteur et qui figurent généralement à la première page d’un journal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-headline · headline · French
headline · rank #99,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,184
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hassidim
Nearest frequency peer: hassidim (-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 « headline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hartung
Hartung
821 corpus weight
- Hashem
Hashem
820 corpus weight
- hassidim
hassidim
819 corpus weight
- headline
headline
817 corpus weight
- hermon
hermon
814 corpus weight
- herring
herring
813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « headline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | headline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɛd.laɪn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « headline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
headline is uncommon French at frequency #99,184 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhɛd.laɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manchette, indication en gros caractères destinées à frapper l’attention du lecteur et qui figurent généralement à la première page d’un journal.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for headline, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is headline, spelled H-E-A-D-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Manchette, indication en gros caractères destinées à frapper l’attention du lecteur et qui figurent généralement à la première page d’un journal.
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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