Hillard
\hi.yaʁ\
The verdict
“Hillard” is uncommon French (frequency #93,861 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,861
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hillard · Hillard · French
Hillard · rank #93,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,861
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hiromi
Nearest frequency peer: Hiromi (+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 « Hillard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- heille
heille
6,144 corpus weight
- Helvète
Helvète
6,143 corpus weight
- hersent
hersent
6,142 corpus weight
- Hillard
Hillard
6,140 corpus weight
- Hiromi
Hiromi
6,139 corpus weight
- histologiqu…
histologiques
6,137 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hillard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hillard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \hi.yaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hillard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hillard is uncommon French at frequency #93,861 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \hi.yaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Hillard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Hillard, spelled H-I-L-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hillard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nulle surprise alors de retrouver comme conférencier invité l’essayiste Pierre Hillard, praticien d’une science politique également complotiste traquant depuis deux décennies les acteurs cachés de la construction européenne, de la relation transatlantique et de la gouvernance mondiale.
« L’antisémitisme n’a pas sa place dans notre pays. » Face aux « propos ignominieux » tenus par l’essayiste controversé Pierre Hillard lors des universités d’été de l’organisation catholique intégriste Civitas, le ministre de l’Intérieur Gérald Darmanin annonce saisir le procureur de la République et demande à ses services « d’instruire la dissolution de…
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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