hollander
^((h aspiré))\ɔ.lɑ̃.de\
The verdict
“hollander” is uncommon French (frequency #69,902 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,902
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passer des plumes dans la cendre chaude pour les dégraisser, car les plumes d'oie servant à écrire doivent être exemptes de graisse pour que l'encre y glisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hollander · hollander · French
hollander · rank #69,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,902
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Holger
Nearest frequency peer: Holger (-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 « hollander »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hocher
hocher
30,102 corpus weight
- Holger
Holger
30,100 corpus weight
- hollander
hollander
30,099 corpus weight
- Holm
Holm
30,098 corpus weight
- horizontali…
horizontalité
30,096 corpus weight
- hormonales
hormonales
30,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hollander » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hollander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.lɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hollander » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hollander is uncommon French at frequency #69,902 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ɔ.lɑ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passer des plumes dans la cendre chaude pour les dégraisser, car les plumes d'oie servant à écrire doivent être exemptes de graisse pour que l'encre y glisse.".
hollander has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hollander, spelled H-O-L-L-A-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passer des plumes dans la cendre chaude pour les dégraisser, car les plumes d'oie servant à écrire doivent être exemptes de graisse pour que l'encre y glisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hollander appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour hollander les plumes, on en plonge le tuyau dans une chaudière d'eau presque bouillante (fig.61 A) contenant en dissolution une petite quantité de potasse, d'alun ou de sel commun.
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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