hérissée
\e.ʁi.se\
The verdict
“hérissée” is uncommon French (frequency #74,877 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,877
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vulgaire de la noctuelle de l'artichaut. Noctuelle hérissée ou Dypterygia scabriuscula.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herissee · hérissée · French
hérissée · rank #74,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,877
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hésitons
Nearest frequency peer: hésitons (+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 « hérissée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hypocriteme…
hypocritement
25,127 corpus weight
- hébété
hébété
25,126 corpus weight
- hérissée
hérissée
25,124 corpus weight
- hésitons
hésitons
25,123 corpus weight
- hétérodoxe
hétérodoxe
25,122 corpus weight
- idéalise
idéalise
25,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hérissée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hérissée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁi.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hérissée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hérissée is uncommon French at frequency #74,877 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʁi.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vulgaire de la noctuelle de l'artichaut. Noctuelle hérissée ou Dypterygia scabriuscula.".
hérissée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 hérissée, spelled H-É-R-I-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire de la noctuelle de l'artichaut. Noctuelle hérissée ou Dypterygia scabriuscula.
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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