Holman
The verdict
“Holman” is uncommon French (frequency #90,805 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,805
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holman · Holman · French
Holman · rank #90,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,805
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hoog
Nearest frequency peer: hoog (+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 « Holman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hips
hips
9,200 corpus weight
- hiérarchisés
hiérarchisés
9,198 corpus weight
- Holman
Holman
9,196 corpus weight
- hoog
hoog
9,195 corpus weight
- hoplites
hoplites
9,194 corpus weight
- houten
houten
9,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Holman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Holman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Holman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Holman is uncommon French at frequency #90,805 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Holman, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Holman, spelled H-O-L-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Holman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, qui possédait une collection de 3 000 vinyles, était un mélomane averti, également DJ et musicien au sein du groupe expérimental Gray, fondé en 1979 avec Michael Holman.
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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