houillère
^((h aspiré))\u.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“houillère” is uncommon French (frequency #83,024 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,024
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mine de houille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houillere · houillère · French
houillère · rank #83,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,024
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hombres
Nearest frequency peer: hombres (-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 « houillère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- HLA
HLA
16,980 corpus weight
- Hofer
Hofer
16,979 corpus weight
- hombres
hombres
16,978 corpus weight
- houillère
houillère
16,977 corpus weight
- hydroliennes
hydroliennes
16,974 corpus weight
- hypercentre
hypercentre
16,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « houillère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houillère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\u.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « houillère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
houillère is uncommon French at frequency #83,024 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\u.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mine de houille.".
houillère doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is houillère, spelled H-O-U-I-L-L-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Mine de houille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how houillère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme un gigantesque cimetière profané s’ouvrait dans les filons de la houillère, grandissait, se perdait dans les acculs lointains, là où les claque-dents devaient si bien dormir leur dernier sommeil sous les toits écrasés des tailles.
Les «Compagnie Marseillaise de navigation à vapeur,» des «Société houillère et métallurgique des Asturies.»
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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