Herm
\ɛʁm\
The verdict
“Herm” is uncommon French (frequency #81,222 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,222
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herm · Herm · French
Herm · rank #81,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,222
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Herblay
Nearest frequency peer: Herblay (-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 « Herm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Halima
Halima
18,784 corpus weight
- Handy
Handy
18,783 corpus weight
- Herblay
Herblay
18,780 corpus weight
- Herm
Herm
18,779 corpus weight
- heroine
heroine
18,778 corpus weight
- Herzl
Herzl
18,776 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Herm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Herm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Herm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Herm is uncommon French at frequency #81,222 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Herm, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Herm, spelled H-E-R-M.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
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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