horses
\ˈhɔɹ.sɪz\
The verdict
“horses” is uncommon French (frequency #80,282 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,282
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de horse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horses · horses · French
horses · rank #80,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,282
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH horeca
Nearest frequency peer: horeca (-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 « horses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- HSV
HSV
19,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « horses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | horses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhɔɹ.sɪz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « horses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
horses is uncommon French at frequency #80,282 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhɔɹ.sɪz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de horse.".
horses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is horses, spelled H-O-R-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de horse.
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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