hear it said
\ˌhɪɹ ɪt ˈsɛd\
The verdict
“hear it said” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entendre parler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hear-it-said · hear it said · French
hear it said · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hear it said |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˌhɪɹ ɪt ˈsɛd\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hear it said » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hear it said is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˌhɪɹ ɪt ˈsɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Entendre parler.".
hear it said has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hear it said, spelled H-E-A-R- -I-T- -S-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Entendre parler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hear it said appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I hear it said that anyone who didn't attend the meeting is an enemy of the people.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.