helicopter
\ˈhɛlɪˌkɑptɜɹ\
The verdict
“helicopter” is uncommon French (frequency #80,278 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,278
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hélicoptère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-helicopter · helicopter · French
helicopter · rank #80,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,278
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hefner
Nearest frequency peer: Hefner (-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 « helicopter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Harare
Harare
19,727 corpus weight
- Hefner
Hefner
19,724 corpus weight
- helicopter
helicopter
19,723 corpus weight
- hema
hema
19,722 corpus weight
- hernies
hernies
19,721 corpus weight
- horeca
horeca
19,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « helicopter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | helicopter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɛlɪˌkɑptɜɹ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « helicopter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
helicopter is uncommon French at frequency #80,278 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhɛlɪˌkɑptɜɹ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hélicoptère.".
Zero misspellings are on record for helicopter in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is helicopter, spelled H-E-L-I-C-O-P-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Hélicoptère.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).