Hendrik

name

The verdict

“Hendrik” is uncommon French (frequency #69,141 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,141
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-hendrik · Hendrik · French

Hendrik · rank #69,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,141
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hemsworth

Nearest frequency peer: Hemsworth (-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 « Hendrik »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hendrik » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Hendrik
PropertyValue
HeadwordHendrik
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#69,141
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Hendrik » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Hendriktombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Hemsworth » (#69,140), « herboriste » (#69,142), « Hauterive » (#69,137). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « Hendrik » est au #69,141. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Hendrik is uncommon French at frequency #69,141 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Hendrik, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Hendrik, spelled H-E-N-D-R-I-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Hendrik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Du côté des suiveurs des Boks, « on s’attend à affronter la France en quarts », comme Hendrik Cronjé, journaliste à l’hebdomadaire sud-africain Rapport.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Hendrik"?
"Hendrik" is spelled H-E-N-D-R-I-K.
What does "Hendrik" mean?
As a proper noun, "Hendrik" means: Prénom masculin.
What language does "Hendrik" come from?
"Hendrik" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hendrik", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list