hiéroglyphe
^((h aspiré))\je.ʁɔ.ɡlif\
The verdict
“hiéroglyphe” is uncommon French (frequency #84,875 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,875
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole linguistique utilisant le dessin et la représentation symbolique du temps de l’Égypte antique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hieroglyphe · hiéroglyphe · French
hiéroglyphe · rank #84,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,875
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hockeyeurs
Nearest frequency peer: hockeyeurs (+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 « hiéroglyphe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hipparque
hipparque
15,128 corpus weight
- hiéroglyphe
hiéroglyphe
15,126 corpus weight
- hockeyeurs
hockeyeurs
15,125 corpus weight
- Hoggar
Hoggar
15,124 corpus weight
- homemade
homemade
15,123 corpus weight
- honk
honk
15,122 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hiéroglyphe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hiéroglyphe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\je.ʁɔ.ɡlif\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hiéroglyphe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hiéroglyphe is uncommon French at frequency #84,875 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\je.ʁɔ.ɡlif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hiéroglyphe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hiéroglyphe, spelled H-I-É-R-O-G-L-Y-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Symbole linguistique utilisant le dessin et la représentation symbolique du temps de l’Égypte antique.
- 2Style, écriture ou langage difficile à comprendre ; symboles mystérieux.
- 3Trace en relief que l’on trouve à la base des bancs de sable fossilisés qui peut être due, ou non, à une activité biologique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hiéroglyphe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez d’autres, on a saisi les premiers linéaments de la civilisation qui apparaît plus développée chez les Mexicains : par exemple, le commencement d’un système idéographique qui est comme l’embryon des hiéroglyphes nahuatles.
C’est pour ce motif que l’hiéroglyphe de l’obélisque […] s’emploie, dans l’orthographe des basses-époques, pour écrire le nom d’Ammon
Synonyms
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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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