hornets
\ˈhɔː.nɪts\
The verdict
“hornets” is uncommon French (frequency #82,107 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,107
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hornet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hornets · hornets · French
hornets · rank #82,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,107
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hooligan
Nearest frequency peer: hooligan (-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 « hornets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- hyperbare
hyperbare
17,890 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hornets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hornets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɔː.nɪts\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hornets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hornets is uncommon French at frequency #82,107 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhɔː.nɪts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hornet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hornets in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hornets, spelled H-O-R-N-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hornet.
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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