highlanders
\haj.lɑ̃.dœʁ\
The verdict
“highlanders” is uncommon French (frequency #82,104 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,104
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de highlander.
Corpus desk
Index FR-highlanders · highlanders · French
highlanders · rank #82,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,104
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hermel
Nearest frequency peer: Hermel (-2 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 « highlanders »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Harrelson
Harrelson
17,902 corpus weight
- Hermel
Hermel
17,899 corpus weight
- highlanders
highlanders
17,897 corpus weight
- hooligan
hooligan
17,895 corpus weight
- hornets
hornets
17,894 corpus weight
- humilient
humilient
17,892 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « highlanders » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | highlanders |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \haj.lɑ̃.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « highlanders » en français
Rare enough to double-check
highlanders is uncommon French at frequency #82,104 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \haj.lɑ̃.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de highlander.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for highlanders, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 highlanders, spelled H-I-G-H-L-A-N-D-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel 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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