herboriste
\ɛʁ.bɔ.ʁist\
The verdict
“herboriste” is uncommon French (frequency #69,142 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,142
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui vend des plantes et des graines médicinales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herboriste · herboriste · French
herboriste · rank #69,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,142
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hendrik
Nearest frequency peer: Hendrik (-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 « herboriste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hauterive
Hauterive
30,864 corpus weight
- Hemsworth
Hemsworth
30,861 corpus weight
- Hendrik
Hendrik
30,860 corpus weight
- herboriste
herboriste
30,859 corpus weight
- hitch
hitch
30,855 corpus weight
- horoscopes
horoscopes
30,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « herboriste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herboriste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.bɔ.ʁist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « herboriste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
herboriste is uncommon French at frequency #69,142 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛʁ.bɔ.ʁist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for herboriste, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is herboriste, spelled H-E-R-B-O-R-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui vend des plantes et des graines médicinales.
- 2Personne qui se livre à l’étude des plantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how herboriste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Acheter des vulnéraires chez un herboriste.
Si un herboriste avait été impliqué, on aurait exhibé sa photo dans tous les journaux, la télévision serait venue filmer l’herboristerie, et le procès aurait eu lieu dans les mois suivants avec tout le tapage médiatique possible.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).