herder
\ˈhəːdə\
The verdict
“herder” is uncommon French (frequency #64,502 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,502
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herder · herder · French
herder · rank #64,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,502
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hernani
Nearest frequency peer: Hernani (+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 « herder »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- handle
handle
35,503 corpus weight
- haussement
haussement
35,502 corpus weight
- Heim
Heim
35,501 corpus weight
- herder
herder
35,499 corpus weight
- Hernani
Hernani
35,498 corpus weight
- Hervieu
Hervieu
35,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « herder » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhəːdə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « herder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
herder is uncommon French at frequency #64,502 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhəːdə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Berger.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for herder, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is herder, spelled H-E-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Berger.
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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