hiverner
^((h muet))\i.vɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“hiverner” is uncommon French (frequency #83,934 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,934
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer l’hiver, la mauvaise saison, en parlant des troupes, des navires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hiverner · hiverner · French
hiverner · rank #83,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,934
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hissés
Nearest frequency peer: hissés (-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 « hiverner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hesbaye
Hesbaye
16,070 corpus weight
- hissés
hissés
16,068 corpus weight
- hiverner
hiverner
16,067 corpus weight
- horripile
horripile
16,066 corpus weight
- hort
hort
16,065 corpus weight
- hoste
hoste
16,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hiverner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hiverner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\i.vɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hiverner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hiverner is uncommon French at frequency #83,934 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h muet))\i.vɛʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for hiverner in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hiverner, spelled H-I-V-E-R-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passer l’hiver, la mauvaise saison, en parlant des troupes, des navires.
- 2Passer l'hiver dans un lieu tempéré, en parlant de certains animaux migrateurs.
- 3Passer l’hiver en repos biologique, en parlant des graines, des insectes.
- 4Mettre les bestiaux à l’abri dans les étables, pour l'hiver.
- 5Donner, à une terre, un dernier labour avant l’hiver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hiverner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n'étoit pas possible que ses Troupes hivernassent en deçà des Monts , faute de Places fortes pour s'y maintenir: ainsi il les rappela sans attendre que les neiges en fermassent les passages.
Avant qu'un phoquier norvégien venu par hasard dans cette région ne les rapatriât, ils durent hiverner pendant trois années consécutives !
Synonyms
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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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