heroine
\ˈhɛɹ.əʊ.ɪn\
The verdict
“heroine” is uncommon French (frequency #81,223 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,223
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Héroïne, femme héroïque, femme d’un grand courage. Aujourd’hui, on dit plutôt hero.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heroine · heroine · French
heroine · rank #81,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,223
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Herm
Nearest frequency peer: Herm (-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 « heroine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- hindu
hindu
18,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « heroine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « heroine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
heroine is uncommon French at frequency #81,223 among 1,969 “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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).