houla
^((h aspiré))\u.la\
The verdict
“houla” is uncommon French (frequency #53,395 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,395
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée représentant le cri de douleur de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houla · houla · French
houla · rank #53,395 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,395
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hor
Nearest frequency peer: hor (-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 « houla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Hiller
Hiller
46,610 corpus weight
- hor
hor
46,607 corpus weight
- houla
houla
46,606 corpus weight
- huguenot
huguenot
46,605 corpus weight
- hunting
hunting
46,604 corpus weight
- hurricane
hurricane
46,603 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « houla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\u.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « houla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
houla is uncommon French at frequency #53,395 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\u.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Onomatopée représentant le cri de douleur de quelqu’un.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for houla, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is houla, spelled H-O-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée représentant le cri de douleur de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how houla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Houla ! Houla ! Houla !
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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