hoodie
\u.di\
The verdict
“hoodie” is uncommon French (frequency #74,869 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,869
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pull à capuche, sweat à capuche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hoodie · hoodie · French
hoodie · rank #74,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,869
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hontes
Nearest frequency peer: hontes (-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 « hoodie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- histologique
histologique
25,136 corpus weight
- Hondurien
Hondurien
25,135 corpus weight
- honorera
honorera
25,134 corpus weight
- hontes
hontes
25,133 corpus weight
- hoodie
hoodie
25,132 corpus weight
- hydratée
hydratée
25,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hoodie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoodie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u.di\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hoodie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hoodie is uncommon French at frequency #74,869 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \u.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pull à capuche, sweat à capuche.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hoodie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hoodie, spelled H-O-O-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Pull à capuche, sweat à capuche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hoodie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En vue de préparer l’introduction de Facebook en bourse le 18 mai prochain, Mark Zuckerberg sillonne les grandes villes américaines, se présentant devant les investisseurs vêtu d’un hoodie (sweat à capuche).
Une très large campagne a lieu aujourd’hui sur Internet et les réseaux sociaux. Un site a ainsi collecté en quelques jours plus de 327 000 photos d’anonymes et de célébrités vêtus d’un «hoodie», capuche baissée, en hommage au jeune homme.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).