heels
\hil\
The verdict
“heels” is uncommon French (frequency #85,783 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,783
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de heel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heels · heels · French
heels · rank #85,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,783
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH height
Nearest frequency peer: height (+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 « heels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hannover
Hannover
14,222 corpus weight
- hautaines
hautaines
14,220 corpus weight
- heels
heels
14,218 corpus weight
- height
height
14,217 corpus weight
- hela
hela
14,216 corpus weight
- Hestia
Hestia
14,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « heels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « heels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
heels is uncommon French at frequency #85,783 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de heel.".
Zero misspellings are on record for heels in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is heels, spelled H-E-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de heel.
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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