Hesdin
^((h aspiré))\e.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“Hesdin” is uncommon French (frequency #56,648 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,648
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hesdin · Hesdin · French
Hesdin · rank #56,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,648
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heurtés
Nearest frequency peer: heurtés (+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 « Hesdin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hawke
Hawke
43,358 corpus weight
- Healy
Healy
43,356 corpus weight
- Hesdin
Hesdin
43,353 corpus weight
- heurtés
heurtés
43,352 corpus weight
- horrifique
horrifique
43,349 corpus weight
- Houdini
Houdini
43,348 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hesdin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hesdin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\e.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hesdin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hesdin is uncommon French at frequency #56,648 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\e.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.".
Hesdin has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Hesdin, spelled H-E-S-D-I-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.
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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