hérauts
^((h aspiré))\e.ʁo\
The verdict
“hérauts” is uncommon French (frequency #64,519 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,519
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de héraut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herauts · hérauts · French
hérauts · rank #64,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,519
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hystérectomie
Nearest frequency peer: hystérectomie (-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 « hérauts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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hurla
35,486 corpus weight
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hydrostatique
35,485 corpus weight
- hypnotiseur
hypnotiseur
35,484 corpus weight
- hystérectom…
hystérectomie
35,483 corpus weight
- hérauts
hérauts
35,482 corpus weight
- hétérosexue…
hétérosexuelles
35,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hérauts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hérauts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hérauts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hérauts is uncommon French at frequency #64,519 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de héraut.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hérauts, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hérauts, spelled H-É-R-A-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de héraut.
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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