hippodromes
\i.pɔd.ʁɔm\
The verdict
“hippodromes” is uncommon French (frequency #86,791 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,791
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hippodrome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hippodromes · hippodromes · French
hippodromes · rank #86,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,791
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH historic
Nearest frequency peer: historic (+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 « hippodromes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hie
hie
13,213 corpus weight
- highlight
highlight
13,212 corpus weight
- hippodromes
hippodromes
13,210 corpus weight
- historic
historic
13,209 corpus weight
- Holocène
Holocène
13,208 corpus weight
- homéostasie
homéostasie
13,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hippodromes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hippodromes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.pɔd.ʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hippodromes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hippodromes is uncommon French at frequency #86,791 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.pɔd.ʁɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hippodrome.".
hippodromes has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 hippodromes, spelled H-I-P-P-O-D-R-O-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hippodrome.
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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