hiberner
\i.bɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“hiberner” is uncommon French (frequency #75,762 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,762
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer l'hiver en ayant ses fonctions vitales ralenties, dans un état d'engourdissement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hiberner · hiberner · French
hiberner · rank #75,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,762
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Herculanum
Nearest frequency peer: Herculanum (-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 « hiberner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- haw
haw
24,243 corpus weight
- Herculanum
Herculanum
24,240 corpus weight
- hiberner
hiberner
24,239 corpus weight
- hittite
hittite
24,237 corpus weight
- Hittites
Hittites
24,236 corpus weight
- hominidés
hominidés
24,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hiberner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hiberner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.bɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hiberner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hiberner is uncommon French at frequency #75,762 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.bɛʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hiberner, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is hiberner, spelled H-I-B-E-R-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passer l'hiver en ayant ses fonctions vitales ralenties, dans un état d'engourdissement.
- 2Pour un ordinateur, être à l’arrêt tout en gardant stocké l’état actif en mémoire non-volatile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hiberner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à hiberner, il s'emploie en parlant de certains animaux qui dorment pendant l'hiver d'un sommeil prolongé.
Le site de la Jalle regroupe tous les milieux dont elles ont besoin. Des petites mares forestières dans l’aulnaie pour hiberner : elles s’enfouissent dans la vase tout l’hiver.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).