Hodgkin
\ˈhɒddʒ.kɪn\
The verdict
“Hodgkin” is uncommon French (frequency #79,385 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,385
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hodgkin · Hodgkin · French
Hodgkin · rank #79,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,385
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH historial
Nearest frequency peer: historial (-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 « Hodgkin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hir
hir
20,619 corpus weight
- histamine
histamine
20,618 corpus weight
- historial
historial
20,617 corpus weight
- Hodgkin
Hodgkin
20,616 corpus weight
- houleuses
houleuses
20,614 corpus weight
- huerta
huerta
20,613 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hodgkin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hodgkin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɒddʒ.kɪn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hodgkin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hodgkin is uncommon French at frequency #79,385 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈhɒddʒ.kɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hodgkin in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Hodgkin, spelled H-O-D-G-K-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
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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