Hendrik
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
- Géricault
Géricault
30,865 corpus weight
- Hauterive
Hauterive
30,864 corpus weight
- Hemsworth
Hemsworth
30,861 corpus weight
- Hendrik
Hendrik
30,860 corpus weight
- herboriste
herboriste
30,859 corpus weight
- hitch
hitch
30,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hendrik » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hendrik |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hendrik » en français
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
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hendrik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).