héraut
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,388
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
héraut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sous le régime féodal, officier chargé des publications solennelles et des messages importants ayant, en outre, des fonctions administratives dans la vie publique et dans la gestion des cérémonies. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁo\. Often confused with héros and haut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | héraut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for héraut is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,388 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for héraut, with forms such as "heraut", "hhéraut", and "hréaut". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "héros", "haut", "heat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is héraut, spelled H-É-R-A-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sous le régime féodal, officier chargé des publications solennelles et des messages importants ayant, en outre, des fonctions administratives dans la vie publique et dans la gestion des cérémonies.
- 2En Grèce antique, messager officiel dans les relations internationales.
- 3Annonciateur, messager.
- 4Apologiste.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: heraut,hhéraut,hréaut,héarut,hératu,hérautt,hérraut,héruat,éhraut
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Misspelling Variants of "héraut"
Frequency rank: #42,388 in French
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