herbivore
\ɛʁ.bi.vɔʁ\
The verdict
“herbivore” is uncommon French (frequency #70,712 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,712
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se nourrit d'herbe, principalement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herbivore · herbivore · French
herbivore · rank #70,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,712
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hera
Nearest frequency peer: hera (-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 « herbivore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Helle
Helle
29,292 corpus weight
- Henkel
Henkel
29,291 corpus weight
- hera
hera
29,290 corpus weight
- herbivore
herbivore
29,289 corpus weight
- Heredia
Heredia
29,287 corpus weight
- Hernando
Hernando
29,285 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « herbivore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herbivore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.bi.vɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « herbivore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
herbivore is uncommon French at frequency #70,712 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛʁ.bi.vɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
herbivore has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is herbivore, spelled H-E-R-B-I-V-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se nourrit d'herbe, principalement.
- 2Qui se nourrit de substances végétales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how herbivore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ragondin présente un régime alimentaire herbivore. C'est un rongeur polyphage qui s'attaque aux bulbes et aux racines des plantes aquatiques en particulier les roseaux. Il aime aussi potamots et laîches, scirpes, trèfles, lentilles d'eau, nénuphars et cultures […].
Introduire des herbivores dans les champs peut aussi être une solution. Par exemple, une piste qui est actuellement expérimentée par le CIRAD dans des bananeraies de Guadeloupe est d’utiliser des moutons pour gérer l’enherbement.
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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