HLA
\aʃ.ɛl.a\
The verdict
“HLA” is uncommon French (frequency #83,021 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,021
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antigène des leucocytes humains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hla · HLA · French
HLA · rank #83,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,021
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hofer
Nearest frequency peer: Hofer (+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 « HLA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- haïssez
haïssez
16,985 corpus weight
- Hebei
Hebei
16,983 corpus weight
- HLA
HLA
16,980 corpus weight
- Hofer
Hofer
16,979 corpus weight
- hombres
hombres
16,978 corpus weight
- houillère
houillère
16,977 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « HLA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | HLA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʃ.ɛl.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « HLA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
HLA is uncommon French at frequency #83,021 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʃ.ɛl.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Antigène des leucocytes humains.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for HLA, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 HLA, spelled H-L-A.
Definition
- 1Antigène des leucocytes humains.
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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