Herstal
\ɛʁ.stal\
The verdict
“Herstal” is uncommon French (frequency #54,004 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,004
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herstal · Herstal · French
Herstal · rank #54,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,004
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hermaphrodite
Nearest frequency peer: hermaphrodite (-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 « Herstal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- heaume
heaume
46,000 corpus weight
- helm
helm
45,999 corpus weight
- hermaphrodi…
hermaphrodite
45,998 corpus weight
- Herstal
Herstal
45,997 corpus weight
- Hilfiger
Hilfiger
45,996 corpus weight
- horlogers
horlogers
45,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Herstal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Herstal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.stal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Herstal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Herstal is uncommon French at frequency #54,004 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛʁ.stal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.".
Herstal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Herstal, spelled H-E-R-S-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Commune de la province de Liège de la région wallonne de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Herstal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, cependant, Herstal et la région liégeoise en général ont été le théâtre dʼune action de la Ligue néo-malthusienne belge, créée lors du congrès de Liège de 1905.
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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