heck
\hɛk\
The verdict
“heck” is uncommon French (frequency #57,309 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,309
- 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 hecken.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heck · heck · French
heck · rank #57,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,309
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hassen
Nearest frequency peer: hassen (-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 « heck »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- habana
habana
42,696 corpus weight
- haillons
haillons
42,695 corpus weight
- hassen
hassen
42,694 corpus weight
- heck
heck
42,692 corpus weight
- Hichem
Hichem
42,690 corpus weight
- holographiq…
holographique
42,688 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « heck » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heck |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hɛk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « heck » en français
Rare enough to double-check
heck is uncommon French at frequency #57,309 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \hɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de hecken.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for heck, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is heck, spelled H-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de hecken.
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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