heben
\ˈheːbn̩\
The verdict
“heben” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soulever, élever, hausser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heben · heben · French
heben · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | heben |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈheːbn̩\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « heben » en français
Rare enough to double-check
heben is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈheːbn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soulever, élever, hausser.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for heben, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is heben, spelled H-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Soulever, élever, hausser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how heben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bach geht sogar so weit zu verbreiten, sie habe die Vorwürfe ja "zurückgenommen". Es ist damit Bach, der Peng Shuais mutmaßlich erzwungenen Widerruf erst in den Rang einer Wahrheit hebt.
(...) beim Namen Sawenko hebt der Kommandant die Augenbrauen, fragt nach, ob er etwa der Sohn des Leutnants Sawenko vom NKWD sei, und da der Leutnant Sawenko einer seiner ehemaligen Kameraden ist, regelt er die Angelegenheit, legt den Fall Messerstecherei zu den Akten (...)
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