Holocaust
\ˈhoːlokaʊ̯st\
The verdict
“Holocaust” is uncommon French (frequency #77,588 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,588
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Holocauste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holocaust · Holocaust · French
Holocaust · rank #77,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,588
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homa
Nearest frequency peer: homa (+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 « Holocaust »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- herbeux
herbeux
22,417 corpus weight
- heurtait
heurtait
22,416 corpus weight
- Holocaust
Holocaust
22,413 corpus weight
- homa
homa
22,412 corpus weight
- homophones
homophones
22,411 corpus weight
- hondo
hondo
22,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Holocaust » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Holocaust |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhoːlokaʊ̯st\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Holocaust » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Holocaust is uncommon French at frequency #77,588 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhoːlokaʊ̯st\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Holocauste.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Holocaust, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Holocaust, spelled H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1Holocauste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Holocaust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hat den Holocaust überlebt.
Die Gründung Israels war (...) nach dem Holocaust das Schutzversprechen an die Jüdinnen und Juden – und Deutschland ist verpflichtet, zu helfen, dass dieses Versprechen erfüllt werden kann.
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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