heroine
\ˈhɛɹ.əʊ.ɪn\
The verdict
“heroine” is uncommon French (frequency #81,223 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,223
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Héroïne, femme héroïque, femme d’un grand courage. Aujourd’hui, on dit plutôt hero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heroine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɛɹ.əʊ.ɪn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heroine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
heroine is uncommon French at frequency #81,223 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhɛɹ.əʊ.ɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
heroine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 heroine, spelled H-E-R-O-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Héroïne, femme héroïque, femme d’un grand courage. Aujourd’hui, on dit plutôt hero.
- 2Rôle principal féminin d’une œuvre.
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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Using “heroine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-E-R-O-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈhɛɹ.əʊ.ɪn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.