hobo
^((h aspiré))\ɔ.bo\
The verdict
“hobo” is uncommon French (frequency #91,786 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,786
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vagabond
Corpus desk
Index FR-hobo · hobo · French
hobo · rank #91,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,786
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hirsutes
Nearest frequency peer: hirsutes (-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 « hobo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hil
hil
8,219 corpus weight
- hindouiste
hindouiste
8,218 corpus weight
- hinterland
hinterland
8,217 corpus weight
- hirsutes
hirsutes
8,216 corpus weight
- hobo
hobo
8,215 corpus weight
- huitaine
huitaine
8,211 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hobo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hobo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.bo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hobo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hobo is uncommon French at frequency #91,786 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vagabond".
Zero misspellings are on record for hobo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hobo, spelled H-O-B-O.
Definition
- 1Vagabond
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hobo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la distance vaporeuse, Jody McBrown pouvait passer pour un hobo, un vagabond, s'intéressant à l'harmonie de la grande habitation blanche au fronton soutenu par des colonnes majestueuses.
À une époque où le Québec rejette les carcans sociaux, religieux et culturels du XIX et de la première moitié du XXe siècle, « la condition hermaphrodite du protagoniste du Journal d'un hobo, ce il/elle, est l'indication … d'une fissure de l'identité , d'une convocation polymorphe , d'une mise en cause des expressions viriles du discours nationaliste . »
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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