Hinault
\i.no\
The verdict
“Hinault” is uncommon French (frequency #70,718 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,718
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hinault · Hinault · French
Hinault · rank #70,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,718
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homologuer
Nearest frequency peer: homologuer (+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 « Hinault »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Heredia
Heredia
29,287 corpus weight
- Hernando
Hernando
29,285 corpus weight
- Hinault
Hinault
29,283 corpus weight
- homologuer
homologuer
29,282 corpus weight
- hongre
hongre
29,281 corpus weight
- horseman
horseman
29,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hinault » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hinault |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \i.no\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hinault » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hinault is uncommon French at frequency #70,718 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \i.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
Hinault has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Hinault, spelled H-I-N-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hinault appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est autour de la côte de Domancy, en Haute-Savoie, celle qui avait sacré Bernard Hinault en 1980, que devraient se dérouler les épreuves.
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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