honest
\ˈhoːnəst\
The verdict
“honest” is uncommon French (frequency #74,065 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,065
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif I de honen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-honest · honest · French
honest · rank #74,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,065
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homoparentali…
Nearest frequency peer: homoparentalité (-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 « honest »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hochement
hochement
25,939 corpus weight
- Hogg
Hogg
25,938 corpus weight
- homoparenta…
homoparentalité
25,937 corpus weight
- honest
honest
25,936 corpus weight
- hongkongaise
hongkongaise
25,935 corpus weight
- hortensias
hortensias
25,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « honest » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | honest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈhoːnəst\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « honest » en français
Rare enough to double-check
honest is uncommon French at frequency #74,065 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈhoːnəst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif I de honen.".
honest doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is honest, spelled H-O-N-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif I de honen.
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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