heel
\hil\
The verdict
“heel” is uncommon French (frequency #70,707 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,707
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catcheur jouant le rôle d’un méchant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heel · heel · French
heel · rank #70,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,707
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Haziza
Nearest frequency peer: Haziza (-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 « heel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hattie
hattie
29,298 corpus weight
- Hayashi
Hayashi
29,296 corpus weight
- Haziza
Haziza
29,295 corpus weight
- heel
heel
29,294 corpus weight
- Helle
Helle
29,292 corpus weight
- Henkel
Henkel
29,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « heel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hil\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « heel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
heel is uncommon French at frequency #70,707 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catcheur jouant le rôle d’un méchant.".
heel has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is heel, spelled H-E-E-L.
Definition
- 1Catcheur jouant le rôle d’un méchant.
This word in other languages
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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