hereford
\ɛʁ.fɔʁd\
The verdict
“hereford” is uncommon French (frequency #78,500 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,500
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race à viande de taurin, originaire de l’ouest de l’Angleterre (Herefordshire), à robe pie rouge, à répartition mondiale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hereford · hereford · French
hereford · rank #78,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,500
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Helvétie
Nearest frequency peer: Helvétie (-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 « hereford »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hannon
hannon
21,505 corpus weight
- Helvétie
Helvétie
21,502 corpus weight
- hereford
hereford
21,501 corpus weight
- hers
hers
21,500 corpus weight
- highlights
highlights
21,498 corpus weight
- hindoues
hindoues
21,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hereford » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hereford |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.fɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hereford » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hereford is uncommon French at frequency #78,500 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛʁ.fɔʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race à viande de taurin, originaire de l’ouest de l’Angleterre (Herefordshire), à robe pie rouge, à répartition mondiale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hereford in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 hereford, spelled H-E-R-E-F-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1Race à viande de taurin, originaire de l’ouest de l’Angleterre (Herefordshire), à robe pie rouge, à répartition mondiale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hereford appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’achèterai quelques vaches, et l’un de ces taureaux hereford, rouges, avec la tête et les pattes blanches, et les cornes rectilignes…
Pour sa part, Vassily Gregorivic exploite 19 000 hectares en pâturages pour un total de 4 300 bovins. Les races locales et en particulier la kazakhe « withehead » ont été croisées avec des herefords; simmentals et holsteins.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).