hickey
\ˈhɪk.i\
The verdict
“hickey” is uncommon French (frequency #66,793 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,793
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hickey · hickey · French
hickey · rank #66,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,793
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hellènes
Nearest frequency peer: hellènes (-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 « hickey »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- harmonisée
harmonisée
33,212 corpus weight
- hautains
hautains
33,211 corpus weight
- hellènes
hellènes
33,209 corpus weight
- hickey
hickey
33,208 corpus weight
- Hildegarde
Hildegarde
33,206 corpus weight
- histo
histo
33,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hickey » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hickey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɪk.i\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hickey » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hickey is uncommon French at frequency #66,793 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhɪk.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Suçon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hickey, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hickey, spelled H-I-C-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Suçon.
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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