Held
\hɛlt\
The verdict
“Held” is uncommon French (frequency #54,628 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,628
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Héros.
Corpus desk
Index FR-held · Held · French
Held · rank #54,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,628
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haltérophilie
Nearest frequency peer: haltérophilie (-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 « Held »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- géniteurs
géniteurs
45,377 corpus weight
- haan
haan
45,376 corpus weight
- haltérophil…
haltérophilie
45,374 corpus weight
- Held
Held
45,373 corpus weight
- hummer
hummer
45,371 corpus weight
- humérus
humérus
45,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Held » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Held |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hɛlt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Held » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Held is uncommon French at frequency #54,628 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hɛlt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Héros.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Held, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Held, spelled H-E-L-D.
Definition
- 1Héros.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Held appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selenskyj dankte in seiner Rede jedem einzelnen Menschen aus dem ukrainischen Volk. "Sie sind die wahren Helden", sagte er.
Die Arbeitslager in der Kolyma-Region, am östlichsten Rand Sibiriens, stehen im Ruf, zu den härtesten von allen zu gehören, und dreimal fünf Jahre dort verbüßt zu haben, gilt in den Augen der Jungen soviel, wie dreimal Held der Sowjetunion geworden zu sein: Respekt!
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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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