highlight
\aj.lajt\
The verdict
“highlight” is uncommon French (frequency #86,789 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,789
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Signal que reçoit un participant à un canal IRC quand on s’adresse à lui en le nommant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-highlight · highlight · French
highlight · rank #86,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,789
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hie
Nearest frequency peer: hie (-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 « highlight »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hernández
Hernández
13,216 corpus weight
- heurtées
heurtées
13,214 corpus weight
- hie
hie
13,213 corpus weight
- highlight
highlight
13,212 corpus weight
- hippodromes
hippodromes
13,210 corpus weight
- historic
historic
13,209 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « highlight » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | highlight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aj.lajt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « highlight » en français
Rare enough to double-check
highlight is uncommon French at frequency #86,789 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aj.lajt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Signal que reçoit un participant à un canal IRC quand on s’adresse à lui en le nommant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for highlight, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is highlight, spelled H-I-G-H-L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Signal que reçoit un participant à un canal IRC quand on s’adresse à lui en le nommant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how highlight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un highlight sert à vous réveiller quand on vous parle.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).