hippie
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,583
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
hippie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Membre d’un mouvement de contreculture des années 1960 et 1970, caractérisée par le rejet des valeurs conservatrices de la bourgeoisie, l’usage de drogues récréationnelles, l’abandon du puritanisme... Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\i.pi\. Often confused with hippies and hippique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hippie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\i.pi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hippie is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\i.pi\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,583 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for hippie, with forms such as "hhippie", "hipie", and "hipipe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hippies", "hippique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hippie, spelled H-I-P-P-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membre d’un mouvement de contreculture des années 1960 et 1970, caractérisée par le rejet des valeurs conservatrices de la bourgeoisie, l’usage de drogues récréationnelles, l’abandon du puritanisme sexuel, etc.
- 2Personne qui s’habille de façon non conventionnelle, généralement en se laissant pousser les cheveux (pour les hommes) et adoptant un style de vie marginal, communautaire ou nomade.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhippie,hipie,hipipe,hippei,hpipie,ihppie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hippie
Misspelling Variants of "hippie"
Frequency rank: #22,583 in French
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