héritent
^((h muet))\e.ʁit\
The verdict
“héritent” is uncommon French (frequency #52,745 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,745
- 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 hériter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heritent · héritent · French
héritent · rank #52,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,745
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH igloo
Nearest frequency peer: igloo (+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 « héritent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- horticulteur
horticulteur
47,260 corpus weight
- huilée
huilée
47,259 corpus weight
- héritent
héritent
47,256 corpus weight
- igloo
igloo
47,255 corpus weight
- iman
iman
47,254 corpus weight
- immigrées
immigrées
47,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « héritent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | héritent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\e.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « héritent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
héritent is uncommon French at frequency #52,745 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h muet))\e.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
héritent has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is héritent, spelled H-É-R-I-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de hériter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de hériter.
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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