hooligan
^((h aspiré))\u.li.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“hooligan” is uncommon French (frequency #82,106 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,106
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voyou d’Angleterre
Corpus desk
Index FR-hooligan · hooligan · French
hooligan · rank #82,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,106
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hornets
Nearest frequency peer: hornets (+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 « hooligan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hermel
Hermel
17,899 corpus weight
- highlanders
highlanders
17,897 corpus weight
- hooligan
hooligan
17,895 corpus weight
- hornets
hornets
17,894 corpus weight
- humilient
humilient
17,892 corpus weight
- huo
huo
17,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hooligan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hooligan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\u.li.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hooligan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hooligan is uncommon French at frequency #82,106 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\u.li.ɡɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for hooligan in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hooligan, spelled H-O-O-L-I-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Voyou d’Angleterre
- 2Perturbateur de l’ordre public (violent ou non), asocial.
- 3Supporters ultra-violents de certains clubs de foot, qui agressent ceux des clubs adverses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hooligan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plusieurs lecteurs de l’Aurore me demandent ce que signifie le mot Hooligan appliqué il y a quelques jours par notre ami F. de Pressensé aux bandes nationalo-antisémites. Les « hooligans », dit le Daily Graphic, sont « ces jeunes voyous que rien n’arrête et qui sont encore dans plusieurs districts la terreur des citoyens paisibles ». Voilà nos lecteurs re…
À Liverpool, des troubles sérieux on éclaté auxquels ont pris part ensemble les grévistes et les « hooligans » les apaches britanniques.
This word in other languages
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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