hérons
^((h aspiré))\e.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“hérons” is uncommon French (frequency #60,864 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,864
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de héron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herons · hérons · French
hérons · rank #60,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,864
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hydrologique
Nearest frequency peer: hydrologique (-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 « hérons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- humans
humans
39,142 corpus weight
- Hutt
Hutt
39,140 corpus weight
- hydrologique
hydrologique
39,138 corpus weight
- hérons
hérons
39,137 corpus weight
- icitte
icitte
39,135 corpus weight
- Illyrie
Illyrie
39,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hérons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hérons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hérons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hérons is uncommon French at frequency #60,864 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\e.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de héron.".
hérons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hérons, spelled H-É-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de héron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hérons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lors des parades nuptiales, les hérons crient, mais leur cri rauque est loin d’égaler la roulade du rossignol.
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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