historiographe
\is.tɔ.ʁjɔ.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“historiographe” is uncommon French (frequency #59,342 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,342
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Historien ou historienne, personne qui écrit l’histoire du temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-historiographe · historiographe · French
historiographe · rank #59,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,342
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Histologie
Nearest frequency peer: Histologie (-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 « historiographe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hexagonales
hexagonales
40,662 corpus weight
- hirsute
hirsute
40,661 corpus weight
- Histologie
Histologie
40,660 corpus weight
- historiogra…
historiographe
40,659 corpus weight
- hocha
hocha
40,657 corpus weight
- Hohenzollern
Hohenzollern
40,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « historiographe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | historiographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \is.tɔ.ʁjɔ.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #59,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « historiographe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
historiographe is uncommon French at frequency #59,342 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \is.tɔ.ʁjɔ.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Historien ou historienne, personne qui écrit l’histoire du temps.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for historiographe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is historiographe, spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Historien ou historienne, personne qui écrit l’histoire du temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how historiographe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien ! ma fille, dit M. Necker, très bien, et la république vous doit un brevet d’historiographe.
Mais la méthode historique doit être implacable, car elle ne saurait être arrêtée ou limitée par aucun tabou. De plus, le véritable historien est curieux par nature ; il y a en lui un peu du juge d’instruction. Et, déformation professionnelle, tout silence lui est suspect, car c’est là un refus de répondre. Dès lors ce refus dissimule quelque chose de trè…
This word in other languages
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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