herbeux
\ɛʁ.bø\
The verdict
“herbeux” is uncommon French (frequency #77,584 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,584
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Où il y a de l’herbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herbeux · herbeux · French
herbeux · rank #77,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,584
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heurtait
Nearest frequency peer: heurtait (+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 « herbeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- habibi
habibi
22,422 corpus weight
- handsome
handsome
22,421 corpus weight
- herbeux
herbeux
22,417 corpus weight
- heurtait
heurtait
22,416 corpus weight
- Holocaust
Holocaust
22,413 corpus weight
- homa
homa
22,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « herbeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herbeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.bø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « herbeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
herbeux is uncommon French at frequency #77,584 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛʁ.bø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
herbeux has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is herbeux, spelled H-E-R-B-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Où il y a de l’herbe.
- 2Qui est relatif à l’herbe, de la nature de l’herbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how herbeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une large dépression herbeuse, avec une mare et un groupe de figuiers au centre.
Nous nous arrêtames en haut de la pente qui dévalait vers la mer, il étala la couverture sur le sol herbeux et me désigna une barque enfouie dans le sable, à une centaine de mètres.
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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