hochement
^((h aspiré))\ɔʃ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“hochement” is uncommon French (frequency #74,062 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,062
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de hocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hochement · hochement · French
hochement · rank #74,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,062
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hmong
Nearest frequency peer: Hmong (-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 « hochement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- histogramme
histogramme
25,941 corpus weight
- Hmong
Hmong
25,940 corpus weight
- hochement
hochement
25,939 corpus weight
- Hogg
Hogg
25,938 corpus weight
- homoparenta…
homoparentalité
25,937 corpus weight
- honest
honest
25,936 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hochement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hochement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔʃ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hochement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hochement is uncommon French at frequency #74,062 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ɔʃ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de hocher.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hochement, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hochement, spelled H-O-C-H-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de hocher.
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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