hennin
\ɛ.nɛ̃\
The verdict
“hennin” is uncommon French (frequency #90,799 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,799
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coiffe féminine conique très élevée et surmontée d’un voile flottant à son sommet, à la mode en Europe au 15ᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hennin · hennin · French
hennin · rank #90,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,799
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hips
Nearest frequency peer: hips (+2 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 « hennin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- haranguer
haranguer
9,209 corpus weight
- harnachement
harnachement
9,207 corpus weight
- hennin
hennin
9,202 corpus weight
- hips
hips
9,200 corpus weight
- hiérarchisés
hiérarchisés
9,198 corpus weight
- Holman
Holman
9,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hennin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hennin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.nɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hennin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hennin is uncommon French at frequency #90,799 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.nɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coiffe féminine conique très élevée et surmontée d’un voile flottant à son sommet, à la mode en Europe au 15ᵉ siècle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hennin in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hennin, spelled H-E-N-N-I-N.
Definition
- 1Coiffe féminine conique très élevée et surmontée d’un voile flottant à son sommet, à la mode en Europe au 15ᵉ siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hennin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et étoient iceux petits enfans tant animez aprés ces hennins, que quand les grans Dames se partoyent de honte de ces assemblées, les enfans leur couroyent aprés, toûjours les poursuivans avec telles huées.
Les hennins affectaient diverses formes ; le plus souvent ils étaient cylindriques, et ressemblaient à de hauts pains de sucre ; parfois, cependant, ils se partageaient en deux cornes, arrondies en croissant, à la façon des mitres hébraïques. Ces coiffures, qu'on faisait d'étoffes précieuses, de tissus d'or ou d'argent, devaient encadrer la figure, et, bo…
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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