Henne
\ˈhɛnə\
The verdict
“Henne” is uncommon French (frequency #94,879 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,879
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poule, la femelle du coq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-henne · Henne · French
Henne · rank #94,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,879
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH helléniques
Nearest frequency peer: helléniques (-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 « Henne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hasarder
hasarder
5,126 corpus weight
- Hasselhoff
Hasselhoff
5,125 corpus weight
- Heilbronn
Heilbronn
5,124 corpus weight
- helléniques
helléniques
5,123 corpus weight
- Henne
Henne
5,122 corpus weight
- Herning
Herning
5,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Henne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Henne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɛnə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Henne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Henne is uncommon French at frequency #94,879 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhɛnə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poule, la femelle du coq.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Henne, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Henne, spelled H-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Poule, la femelle du coq.
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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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