Herblay
\ɛʁ.blɛ\
The verdict
“Herblay” is uncommon French (frequency #81,221 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,221
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune française de Herblay-sur-Seine, située dans le département du Val-d’Oise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herblay · Herblay · French
Herblay · rank #81,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,221
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Herm
Nearest frequency peer: Herm (+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 « Herblay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Halima
Halima
18,784 corpus weight
- Handy
Handy
18,783 corpus weight
- Herblay
Herblay
18,780 corpus weight
- Herm
Herm
18,779 corpus weight
- heroine
heroine
18,778 corpus weight
- Herzl
Herzl
18,776 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Herblay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Herblay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.blɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Herblay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Herblay is uncommon French at frequency #81,221 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛʁ.blɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien nom de la commune française de Herblay-sur-Seine, située dans le département du Val-d’Oise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Herblay in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Herblay, spelled H-E-R-B-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune française de Herblay-sur-Seine, située dans le département du Val-d’Oise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Herblay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je viens d’Herblay.
Je me rends à Herblay.
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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