hells
\hɛl\
The verdict
“hells” is uncommon French (frequency #52,104 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,104
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hell.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hells · hells · French
hells · rank #52,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,104
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Havana
Nearest frequency peer: Havana (-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 « hells »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hau
hau
47,900 corpus weight
- haul
haul
47,899 corpus weight
- Havana
Havana
47,898 corpus weight
- hells
hells
47,897 corpus weight
- herbacées
herbacées
47,896 corpus weight
- hibiscus
hibiscus
47,894 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hells » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hells |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hells » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hells is uncommon French at frequency #52,104 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hell.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hells in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hells, spelled H-E-L-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hell.
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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