Hennebont
\ɛn.bɔ̃\
The verdict
“Hennebont” is uncommon French (frequency #76,652 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,652
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hennebont · Hennebont · French
Hennebont · rank #76,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,652
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH helléniste
Nearest frequency peer: helléniste (-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 « Hennebont »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hann
hann
23,355 corpus weight
- harcelant
harcelant
23,354 corpus weight
- helléniste
helléniste
23,350 corpus weight
- Hennebont
Hennebont
23,349 corpus weight
- Heyer
Heyer
23,348 corpus weight
- hotspot
hotspot
23,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hennebont » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hennebont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛn.bɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hennebont » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hennebont is uncommon French at frequency #76,652 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛn.bɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Hennebont, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Hennebont, spelled H-E-N-N-E-B-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Morbihan.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Morbihan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hennebont appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kévin Delporte (Hennebont), 5ᵉ aux France, a fait un parcours sans faute chez les 35 ans et +, pour terminer 2ᵉ en finale, juste derrière le Vénézuélien Carlos Manrique.
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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