hirondelle
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,060
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
hirondelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oiseau passereau, migrateur, noir et blanc, qui vit en Europe au cours de l’été. Pronounced ^((h muet))\i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl\. Often confused with hirondelles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hirondelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hirondelle is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\i.ʁɔ̃.dɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,060 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for hirondelle, with forms such as "hhirondelle", "hiorndelle", and "hirnodelle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hirondelles", 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 hirondelle, spelled H-I-R-O-N-D-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oiseau passereau, migrateur, noir et blanc, qui vit en Europe au cours de l’été.
- 2Traits de coupe (repère ou croix de repérage), imprimés dans la marge pour repérer les différents films.
- 3Policier à vélo. → voir mouette
- 4Policier de la brigade motorisée.
- 5Bateau assurant le transport des voyageurs sur les rivières.
- 6Nom des bateaux de taille moyenne qu’utilisa Richelieu pour le siège de La Rochelle.
- 7Pièce de métal plat qui entoure l’intérieur du moyeu d’une roue de charrette.
- 8Ouvrier habitant la campagne et qui allait travailler en ville l’hiver et rentrait l’été à la campagne.
- 9Personne liée à des services secrets qui séduit un ennemi pour obtenir des informations.
- 10Personnes sans domicile fixe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhirondelle,hiorndelle,hirnodelle,hirodnelle,hironddelle,hirondele,hirondelel,hirondlele,hironedlle,hironndelle,hirrondelle,hriondelle,ihrondelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hirondelle
Misspelling Variants of "hirondelle"
Frequency rank: #31,060 in French
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