héliport
\e.li.pɔʁ\
The verdict
“héliport” is uncommon French (frequency #57,318 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,318
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aéroport pour hélicoptères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heliport · héliport · French
héliport · rank #57,318 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,318
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH huot
Nearest frequency peer: huot (-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 « héliport »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- homélies
homélies
42,687 corpus weight
- houari
houari
42,686 corpus weight
- humaniser
humaniser
42,685 corpus weight
- huot
huot
42,684 corpus weight
- héliport
héliport
42,683 corpus weight
- ias
ias
42,682 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « héliport » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | héliport |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.li.pɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « héliport » en français
Rare enough to double-check
héliport is uncommon French at frequency #57,318 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.li.pɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aéroport pour hélicoptères.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for héliport, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 héliport, spelled H-É-L-I-P-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Aéroport pour hélicoptères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how héliport appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souvent un grand H dessiné sur le sol indique un héliport.
Le biturbine affrété par le milliardaire américain n’a pas été autorisé à se poser sur l’héliport de Zermatt.
Synonyms
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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