hips
^((h aspiré))\ips\
The verdict
“hips” is uncommon French (frequency #90,801 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,801
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée imitant le hoquet d'une personne ivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hips · hips · French
hips · rank #90,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,801
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hennin
Nearest frequency peer: hennin (-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 « hips »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hennin
hennin
9,202 corpus weight
- hips
hips
9,200 corpus weight
- hiérarchisés
hiérarchisés
9,198 corpus weight
- Holman
Holman
9,196 corpus weight
- hoog
hoog
9,195 corpus weight
- hoplites
hoplites
9,194 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hips » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hips |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ips\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hips » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hips is uncommon French at frequency #90,801 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ips\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Onomatopée imitant le hoquet d'une personne ivre.".
hips has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 hips, spelled H-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée imitant le hoquet d'une personne ivre.
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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