Héraclée
\e.ʁa.kle\
The verdict
“Héraclée” is uncommon French (frequency #90,815 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,815
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de villes fondées par Hercule ou consacrées à lui, la plus célèbre étant Héraclée du Pont.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heraclee · Héraclée · French
Héraclée · rank #90,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,815
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Héphaïstos
Nearest frequency peer: Héphaïstos (-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 « Héraclée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hte
hte
9,192 corpus weight
- hurluberlu
hurluberlu
9,190 corpus weight
- hélicoïdal
hélicoïdal
9,188 corpus weight
- Héphaïstos
Héphaïstos
9,187 corpus weight
- Héraclée
Héraclée
9,186 corpus weight
- ignora
ignora
9,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Héraclée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Héraclée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁa.kle\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Héraclée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Héraclée is uncommon French at frequency #90,815 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.ʁa.kle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de villes fondées par Hercule ou consacrées à lui, la plus célèbre étant Héraclée du Pont.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Héraclée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Héraclée, spelled H-É-R-A-C-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de villes fondées par Hercule ou consacrées à lui, la plus célèbre étant Héraclée du Pont.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Héraclée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 16 mai, nous sortîmes d’Héraclée, suivant au sud-est une voie ancienne, qu’indiquaient ses pavés épars et l’égalité du terrain.
This word in other languages
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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