hétérosexuelle
\e.te.ʁɔ.sɛk.sɥɛl\
The verdict
“hétérosexuelle” is uncommon French (frequency #56,022 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,022
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de hétérosexuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heterosexuelle · hétérosexuelle · French
hétérosexuelle · rank #56,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,022
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hérésies
Nearest frequency peer: hérésies (-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 « hétérosexuelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- honorant
honorant
43,982 corpus weight
- Hwang
Hwang
43,981 corpus weight
- hérésies
hérésies
43,980 corpus weight
- hétérosexue…
hétérosexuelle
43,979 corpus weight
- hôtelières
hôtelières
43,978 corpus weight
- idle
idle
43,977 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hétérosexuelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hétérosexuelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.te.ʁɔ.sɛk.sɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #56,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hétérosexuelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hétérosexuelle is uncommon French at frequency #56,022 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.te.ʁɔ.sɛk.sɥɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de hétérosexuel.".
hétérosexuelle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hétérosexuelle, spelled H-É-T-É-R-O-S-E-X-U-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de hétérosexuel.
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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