heb
\heːp\
The verdict
“heb” is uncommon French (frequency #86,783 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,783
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de heben.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heb · heb · French
heb · rank #86,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,783
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haïssaient
Nearest frequency peer: haïssaient (-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 « heb »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Haren
Haren
13,222 corpus weight
- Harker
Harker
13,220 corpus weight
- haïssaient
haïssaient
13,219 corpus weight
- heb
heb
13,218 corpus weight
- Herbin
Herbin
13,217 corpus weight
- Hernández
Hernández
13,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « heb » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \heːp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « heb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
heb is uncommon French at frequency #86,783 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \heːp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de heben.".
heb doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 heb, spelled H-E-B.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de heben.
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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