hersant
\ɛʁ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“hersant” is uncommon French (frequency #59,338 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,338
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe herser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hersant · hersant · French
hersant · rank #59,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,338
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH helvétiques
Nearest frequency peer: helvétiques (-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 « hersant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hawaïen
hawaïen
40,666 corpus weight
- hayat
hayat
40,665 corpus weight
- helvétiques
helvétiques
40,664 corpus weight
- hersant
hersant
40,663 corpus weight
- hexagonales
hexagonales
40,662 corpus weight
- hirsute
hirsute
40,661 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hersant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hersant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hersant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hersant is uncommon French at frequency #59,338 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛʁ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe herser.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hersant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hersant, spelled H-E-R-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe herser.
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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