horeca
\o.ʁe.ka\
The verdict
“horeca” is uncommon French (frequency #80,281 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,281
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hôtellerie-restauration, (secteur comprenant l’hôtellerie, la restauration, les cafés).
Corpus desk
Index FR-horeca · horeca · French
horeca · rank #80,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,281
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hernies
Nearest frequency peer: hernies (-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 « horeca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- helicopter
helicopter
19,723 corpus weight
- hema
hema
19,722 corpus weight
- hernies
hernies
19,721 corpus weight
- horeca
horeca
19,720 corpus weight
- horses
horses
19,719 corpus weight
- houe
houe
19,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « horeca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horeca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.ʁe.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « horeca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
horeca is uncommon French at frequency #80,281 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.ʁe.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hôtellerie-restauration, (secteur comprenant l’hôtellerie, la restauration, les cafés).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for horeca, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is horeca, spelled H-O-R-E-C-A.
Definition
- 1Hôtellerie-restauration, (secteur comprenant l’hôtellerie, la restauration, les cafés).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how horeca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont les secteurs de l’horeca, des transports et communications et de l’immobilier, leasing et services aux entreprises qui affichent la proportion la plus élevée de crédit bancaire au sein de l’endettement total.
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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