hissa
^((h aspiré))\i.sa\
The verdict
“hissa” is uncommon French (frequency #99,193 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,193
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de hisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hissa · hissa · French
hissa · rank #99,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,193
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hindouistes
Nearest frequency peer: hindouistes (-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 « hissa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- herring
herring
813 corpus weight
- hija
hija
810 corpus weight
- hindouistes
hindouistes
809 corpus weight
- hissa
hissa
808 corpus weight
- homem
homem
807 corpus weight
- honnis
honnis
805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hissa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hissa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\i.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hissa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hissa is uncommon French at frequency #99,193 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\i.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de hisser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hissa in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hissa, spelled H-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de hisser.
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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