Honshu

\ɔn.ʃy\

/\ɔn.ʃy\/ name

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The verdict

“Honshu” is uncommon French (frequency #87,723 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,723
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La plus grande île du Japon, peuplée de plus de cent-vingt millions ou 4/5 des Japonais, sur laquelle se trouvent les grandes villes comme Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Kobé et Kyoto.

Corpus desk

Index FR-honshu · Honshu · French

Honshu · rank #87,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,723
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH honour

Nearest frequency peer: honour (-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 « Honshu »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Honshu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Honshu
PropertyValue
HeadwordHonshu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ɔn.ʃy\
Letters6
Frequency rank#87,723
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Honshu » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Honshutombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « honour » (#87,722), « Houllier » (#87,724), « hollandisme » (#87,721). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « Honshu » est au #87,723. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Honshu is uncommon French at frequency #87,723 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɔn.ʃy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "La plus grande île du Japon, peuplée de plus de cent-vingt millions ou 4/5 des Japonais, sur laquelle se trouvent les grandes villes comme Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Kobé et Kyoto.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Honshu in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Honshu, spelled H-O-N-S-H-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    La plus grande île du Japon, peuplée de plus de cent-vingt millions ou 4/5 des Japonais, sur laquelle se trouvent les grandes villes comme Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Kobé et Kyoto.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Honshu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Entre le Kanto à l’est et la Kansai à l’ouest, le Chubu occupe la partie centrale la plus large de l’île de Honshu, soit 66,777 km².
  2. Hokkaido se couvrit pendant l’Holocène d’une forêt mixte de conifères et de feuillus, tandis que l’Est de Honshu se peuplait d’arbres à feuilles caduques caractéristiques des climats tempérés froids, et qu’une forêt à feuillage persistant de type tempéré chaud s’étendait sur Kyushu, Shikoku et l’Ouest de Honshu.

Synonyms

Hondo

This word in other languages

Honshu(English)Honshu(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Honshu"?
"Honshu" is spelled H-O-N-S-H-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔn.ʃy\.
What does "Honshu" mean?
As a proper noun, "Honshu" means: La plus grande île du Japon, peuplée de plus de cent-vingt millions ou 4/5 des Japonais, sur laquelle se trouvent les grandes villes comme Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Kobé et Kyoto.
How do you pronounce "Honshu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Honshu" is \ɔn.ʃy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Honshu" come from?
"Honshu" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Honshu", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

honour#87,722Herren#87,718Hanane#87,709grieux#87,692

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list