Hebei
\ɛ.bɛj\
The verdict
“Hebei” is uncommon French (frequency #83,018 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,018
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province de l’Est de la Chine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hebei · Hebei · French
Hebei · rank #83,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,018
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haïssez
Nearest frequency peer: haïssez (-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 « Hebei »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- haussent
haussent
16,987 corpus weight
- Havraise
Havraise
16,986 corpus weight
- haïssez
haïssez
16,985 corpus weight
- Hebei
Hebei
16,983 corpus weight
- HLA
HLA
16,980 corpus weight
- Hofer
Hofer
16,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hebei » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hebei |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.bɛj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hebei » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hebei is uncommon French at frequency #83,018 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛ.bɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Province de l’Est de la Chine.".
Hebei doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Hebei, spelled H-E-B-E-I.
Definition
- 1Province de l’Est de la Chine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hebei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En tout, dix autoroutes conduisant à la capitale de la province du Hebei, située à 300 km au sud de Pékin, étaient fermées, ainsi qu’une gare routière, afin d’empêcher la contagion de se répandre à l’extérieur de la ville.
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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