hibiscus
\i.bis.kys\
The verdict
“hibiscus” is uncommon French (frequency #52,107 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,107
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante à fleurs annuelles ou vivaces de la famille des Malvacées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hibiscus · hibiscus · French
hibiscus · rank #52,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,107
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH illusionniste
Nearest frequency peer: illusionniste (+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 « hibiscus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Havana
Havana
47,898 corpus weight
- hells
hells
47,897 corpus weight
- herbacées
herbacées
47,896 corpus weight
- hibiscus
hibiscus
47,894 corpus weight
- illusionnis…
illusionniste
47,893 corpus weight
- immisce
immisce
47,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hibiscus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hibiscus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.bis.kys\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hibiscus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hibiscus is uncommon French at frequency #52,107 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.bis.kys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante à fleurs annuelles ou vivaces de la famille des Malvacées.".
hibiscus has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hibiscus, spelled H-I-B-I-S-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Plante à fleurs annuelles ou vivaces de la famille des Malvacées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hibiscus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce qui, de tous les détours des allées, frappait les regards, c’était un grand Hibiscus de la Chine, dont l’immense nappe de verdure et de fleurs couvrait tout le flanc de l’hôtel.
J’apprenais à goûter l’exquise saveur des chevrettes d’eau douce enveloppées dans des feuilles d’hibiscus et rôties sur des pierres rougies au feu, un mets digne des dieux.
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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