hérissent
^((h aspiré))\e.ʁis\
The verdict
“hérissent” is uncommon French (frequency #93,880 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,880
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de hérisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herissent · hérissent · French
hérissent · rank #93,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,880
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hyaluronique
Nearest frequency peer: hyaluronique (-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 « hérissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hurlez
hurlez
6,125 corpus weight
- huynh
huynh
6,123 corpus weight
- hyaluronique
hyaluronique
6,122 corpus weight
- hérissent
hérissent
6,121 corpus weight
- idoines
idoines
6,118 corpus weight
- immunosuppr…
immunosuppresseurs
6,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hérissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hérissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hérissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hérissent is uncommon French at frequency #93,880 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hérissent has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hérissent, spelled H-É-R-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de hérisser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de hérisser.
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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