herne
\'xer.neʔ\
The verdict
“herne” is uncommon French (frequency #88,718 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,718
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pois, petit pois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herne · herne · French
herne · rank #88,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,718
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herbages
Nearest frequency peer: herbages (-2 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 « herne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Henryk
Henryk
11,286 corpus weight
- herbages
herbages
11,285 corpus weight
- herne
herne
11,283 corpus weight
- hertzien
hertzien
11,281 corpus weight
- heuristiques
heuristiques
11,280 corpus weight
- Hewson
Hewson
11,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « herne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \'xer.neʔ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « herne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
herne is uncommon French at frequency #88,718 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \'xer.neʔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pois, petit pois.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for herne, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is herne, spelled H-E-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Pois, petit pois.
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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