houari
The verdict
“houari” is uncommon French (frequency #57,315 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,315
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une voilure triangulaire à corne dont le pic prolonge le mât.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houari · houari · French
houari · rank #57,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,315
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homélies
Nearest frequency peer: homélies (-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 « houari »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- holographiq…
holographique
42,688 corpus weight
- homélies
homélies
42,687 corpus weight
- houari
houari
42,686 corpus weight
- humaniser
humaniser
42,685 corpus weight
- huot
huot
42,684 corpus weight
- héliport
héliport
42,683 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « houari » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houari |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « houari » en français
Rare enough to double-check
houari is uncommon French at frequency #57,315 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for houari in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is houari, spelled H-O-U-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une voilure triangulaire à corne dont le pic prolonge le mât.
- 2Portion du mat qui supporte cette voile.
- 3Bateau équipé de cette voilure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how houari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un grément houari.
Un houari peut être plus performant qu'un marconi car il permet de porter la toile sur une vergue plus légère qu'un mât (moins de poids dans le haut).
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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