hermano
\eɾ.ˈma.no\
The verdict
“hermano” is uncommon French (frequency #91,779 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,779
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frère, homme qui a le même père et la même mère qu’une autre personne, ou bien seulement un des deux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hermano · hermano · French
hermano · rank #91,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,779
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herd
Nearest frequency peer: herd (-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 « hermano »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hellénisme
hellénisme
8,225 corpus weight
- herbeuses
herbeuses
8,224 corpus weight
- herd
herd
8,223 corpus weight
- hermano
hermano
8,222 corpus weight
- hijra
hijra
8,220 corpus weight
- hil
hil
8,219 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hermano » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hermano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \eɾ.ˈma.no\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hermano » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hermano is uncommon French at frequency #91,779 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \eɾ.ˈma.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
hermano has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 hermano, spelled H-E-R-M-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Frère, homme qui a le même père et la même mère qu’une autre personne, ou bien seulement un des deux.
- 2Frère, homme appartenant à une confrérie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hermano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El hermano habló confusamente de resonancias, vibraciones.
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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