Hilarion
\i.la.ʁjɔ̃\
The verdict
“Hilarion” is uncommon French (frequency #74,864 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,864
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hilarion · Hilarion · French
Hilarion · rank #74,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,864
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Henrion
Nearest frequency peer: Henrion (-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 « Hilarion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- havres
havres
25,140 corpus weight
- Hecht
Hecht
25,139 corpus weight
- Henrion
Henrion
25,138 corpus weight
- Hilarion
Hilarion
25,137 corpus weight
- histologique
histologique
25,136 corpus weight
- Hondurien
Hondurien
25,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hilarion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hilarion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \i.la.ʁjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hilarion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hilarion is uncommon French at frequency #74,864 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \i.la.ʁjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Hilarion, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 Hilarion, spelled H-I-L-A-R-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hilarion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hilarion de Gaza.
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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