Heredia
\eˈɾedja\
The verdict
“Heredia” is uncommon French (frequency #70,714 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,714
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heredia · Heredia · French
Heredia · rank #70,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,714
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herbivore
Nearest frequency peer: herbivore (-2 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 « Heredia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Hinault
Hinault
29,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Heredia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Heredia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \eˈɾedja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Heredia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Heredia is uncommon French at frequency #70,714 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \eˈɾedja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Heredia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Heredia, spelled H-E-R-E-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Heredia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juan Fernández de Heredia.
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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