héritières
\e.ʁi.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“héritières” is uncommon French (frequency #54,636 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,636
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de héritière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heritieres · héritières · French
héritières · rank #54,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,636
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hégire
Nearest frequency peer: hégire (-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 « héritières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hypotension
hypotension
45,368 corpus weight
- hébergeant
hébergeant
45,367 corpus weight
- hégire
hégire
45,366 corpus weight
- héritières
héritières
45,365 corpus weight
- hésitants
hésitants
45,364 corpus weight
- ibériques
ibériques
45,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « héritières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | héritières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁi.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « héritières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
héritières is uncommon French at frequency #54,636 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ʁi.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de héritière.".
héritières has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is héritières, spelled H-É-R-I-T-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de héritière.
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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