hindu
\hin.du\
The verdict
“hindu” is uncommon French (frequency #81,227 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,227
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hindu · hindu · French
hindu · rank #81,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,227
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Herzl
Nearest frequency peer: Herzl (-2 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 « hindu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Herblay
Herblay
18,780 corpus weight
- Herm
Herm
18,779 corpus weight
- heroine
heroine
18,778 corpus weight
- Herzl
Herzl
18,776 corpus weight
- hindu
hindu
18,774 corpus weight
- homie
homie
18,769 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hindu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hindu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hin.du\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hindu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hindu is uncommon French at frequency #81,227 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hin.du\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hindu, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hindu, spelled H-I-N-D-U.
Definition
- 1Indien.
- 2Indienne.
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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