hermines
\ɛʁ.min\
The verdict
“hermines” is uncommon French (frequency #89,792 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,792
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hermine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hermines · hermines · French
hermines · rank #89,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,792
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Haywood
Nearest frequency peer: Haywood (-4 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 « hermines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- harde
harde
10,216 corpus weight
- hardes
hardes
10,215 corpus weight
- Haywood
Haywood
10,213 corpus weight
- hermines
hermines
10,209 corpus weight
- honnie
honnie
10,204 corpus weight
- houblons
houblons
10,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hermines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hermines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.min\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hermines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hermines is uncommon French at frequency #89,792 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛʁ.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hermine.".
hermines doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hermines, spelled H-E-R-M-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hermine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hermines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durant toute l’observation, à aucun moment les hermines ont tenté de capturer la poule, elles ne font que se défendre.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).