Hiram
The verdict
“Hiram” is uncommon French (frequency #62,343 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,343
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétendu architecte du temple de Jérusalem, révéré par les francs-maçons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hiram · Hiram · French
Hiram · rank #62,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,343
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hilarants
Nearest frequency peer: hilarants (-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 « Hiram »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hetzel
Hetzel
37,661 corpus weight
- heuer
heuer
37,660 corpus weight
- hilarants
hilarants
37,659 corpus weight
- Hiram
Hiram
37,658 corpus weight
- hispanophon…
hispanophones
37,657 corpus weight
- homéopathe
homéopathe
37,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hiram » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hiram |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hiram » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hiram is uncommon French at frequency #62,343 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétendu architecte du temple de Jérusalem, révéré par les francs-maçons.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hiram in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Hiram, spelled H-I-R-A-M.
Definition
- 1Prétendu architecte du temple de Jérusalem, révéré par les francs-maçons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hiram appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De cette interprétation nous devons conclure qu’Hiram, Architecte du Temple de Salomon, devenu le héros de la légende maçonnique, est l’Osiris (le soleil ) de la nouvelle initiation ; qu’Isis, sa veuve, est la Loge, emblème de la Terre, et qu’Orus, fils d’Osiris (ou de la Lumière) et fils de la Veuve, est le Maçon, c'est-à-dire celui qui habite la Loge te…
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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