hijra
\iʒ.ʁa\
The verdict
“hijra” is uncommon French (frequency #91,781 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,781
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la culture indienne et pakistanaise, personne du troisième genre considérées comme n’étant ni hommes ni femmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hijra · hijra · French
hijra · rank #91,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,781
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hil
Nearest frequency peer: hil (+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 « hijra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- herd
herd
8,223 corpus weight
- hermano
hermano
8,222 corpus weight
- hijra
hijra
8,220 corpus weight
- hil
hil
8,219 corpus weight
- hindouiste
hindouiste
8,218 corpus weight
- hinterland
hinterland
8,217 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hijra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hijra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \iʒ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hijra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hijra is uncommon French at frequency #91,781 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \iʒ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for hijra in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 hijra, spelled H-I-J-R-A.
Definition
- 1Dans la culture indienne et pakistanaise, personne du troisième genre considérées comme n’étant ni hommes ni femmes.
- 2Caste ou communauté regroupant les hijras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hijra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un hijra qui ressemble à une femme et porte le sari, c’est plus acceptable.
Autour de lui se bousculent des mendiants arrêtés pour vol, deux hommes qui s’insultent bruyamment, un conducteur de rickshaw effondré désignant son véhicule démantelé devant l’entrée, un vieil homme hagard, deux touristes hollandais à qui l’on a dérobé leurs passeports ainsi qu’une gypsie vitupérant contre un groupe de hijras qu’elle accuse de lui avoir…
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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