Hildegarde
^((h aspiré))\il.də.ɡaʁd\
The verdict
“Hildegarde” is uncommon French (frequency #66,795 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,795
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hildegarde · Hildegarde · French
Hildegarde · rank #66,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,795
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH histo
Nearest frequency peer: histo (+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 « Hildegarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hellènes
hellènes
33,209 corpus weight
- hickey
hickey
33,208 corpus weight
- Hildegarde
Hildegarde
33,206 corpus weight
- histo
histo
33,205 corpus weight
- Hoffenheim
Hoffenheim
33,204 corpus weight
- Hofmann
Hofmann
33,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hildegarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hildegarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\il.də.ɡaʁd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hildegarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hildegarde is uncommon French at frequency #66,795 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\il.də.ɡaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Hildegarde in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Hildegarde, spelled H-I-L-D-E-G-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hildegarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hildegarde de Bingen, dont les écrits du XIIᵉ siècle influenceront Dante et Léonard de Vinci, est une autre grande figure de la mystique.
Ainsi, la vision anticathare contenue dans le Liber visionum a pu très tôt être comprise comme un complément bienvenu à la vision II d’Hildegarde.
This word in other languages
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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