Highlander
\haɪ.læn.dɚ\
The verdict
“Highlander” is uncommon French (frequency #65,210 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,210
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écossais habitant les Highlands.
Corpus desk
Index FR-highlander · Highlander · French
Highlander · rank #65,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,210
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Heston
Nearest frequency peer: Heston (-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 « Highlander »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- happen
happen
34,795 corpus weight
- Heston
Heston
34,792 corpus weight
- Highlander
Highlander
34,791 corpus weight
- Hines
Hines
34,790 corpus weight
- hiérarchiqu…
hiérarchiquement
34,788 corpus weight
- Horta
Horta
34,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Highlander » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Highlander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \haɪ.læn.dɚ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Highlander » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Highlander is uncommon French at frequency #65,210 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \haɪ.læn.dɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Highlander has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Highlander, spelled H-I-G-H-L-A-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Écossais habitant les Highlands.
- 2Variante de highlander.
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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