hosanna
\ɔ.za.na\
The verdict
“hosanna” is uncommon French (frequency #77,593 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,593
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acclamation religieuse originairement en usage chez les hébreux et qui est employée dans certains offices de l’Église.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hosanna · hosanna · French
hosanna · rank #77,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,593
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH honorait
Nearest frequency peer: honorait (-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 « hosanna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- homa
homa
22,412 corpus weight
- homophones
homophones
22,411 corpus weight
- hondo
hondo
22,410 corpus weight
- honorait
honorait
22,409 corpus weight
- hosanna
hosanna
22,408 corpus weight
- hyperespace
hyperespace
22,406 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hosanna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hosanna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.za.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hosanna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hosanna is uncommon French at frequency #77,593 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.za.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acclamation religieuse originairement en usage chez les hébreux et qui est employée dans certains offices de l’Église.".
hosanna has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 hosanna, spelled H-O-S-A-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1Acclamation religieuse originairement en usage chez les hébreux et qui est employée dans certains offices de l’Église.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hosanna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et quel réveil joyeux, lorsque la virginité sera méprisée, lorsque la fécondité redeviendra une vertu, dans l’hosanna des forces naturelles libérées, les désirs honorés, les passions utilisées, le travail exalté, la vie aimée, enfantant l’éternelle création de l’amour !
crier hosanna, Faire une ovation à quelqu’un ; ou se réjouir de quelque chose.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).