hoop
\hɔʊp\
The verdict
“hoop” is uncommon French (frequency #60,858 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,858
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tas, monceau, amoncellement, amas, masse, foule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hoop · hoop · French
hoop · rank #60,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,858
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hitlérien
Nearest frequency peer: hitlérien (-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 « hoop »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hideo
Hideo
39,147 corpus weight
- hitlérien
hitlérien
39,144 corpus weight
- hoop
hoop
39,143 corpus weight
- humans
humans
39,142 corpus weight
- Hutt
Hutt
39,140 corpus weight
- hydrologique
hydrologique
39,138 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hoop » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hɔʊp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hoop » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hoop is uncommon French at frequency #60,858 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hɔʊp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tas, monceau, amoncellement, amas, masse, foule.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hoop, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 hoop, spelled H-O-O-P.
Definition
- 1Tas, monceau, amoncellement, amas, masse, foule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hoop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Een heel hoop geld.
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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