holst
\hoːlst\
The verdict
“holst” is uncommon French (frequency #85,793 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,793
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de holen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holst · holst · French
holst · rank #85,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,793
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hochant
Nearest frequency peer: hochant (-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 « holst »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hiératique
hiératique
14,211 corpus weight
- hiéroglyphi…
hiéroglyphique
14,210 corpus weight
- hochant
hochant
14,209 corpus weight
- holst
holst
14,208 corpus weight
- Homepage
Homepage
14,207 corpus weight
- homestead
homestead
14,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « holst » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hoːlst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « holst » en français
Rare enough to double-check
holst is uncommon French at frequency #85,793 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \hoːlst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de holen.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for holst, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is holst, spelled H-O-L-S-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif à la forme active de holen.
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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