houles
^((h aspiré))\ul\
The verdict
“houles” is uncommon French (frequency #86,795 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,795
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de houle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houles · houles · French
houles · rank #86,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,795
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homéostasie
Nearest frequency peer: homéostasie (-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 « houles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hippodromes
hippodromes
13,210 corpus weight
- historic
historic
13,209 corpus weight
- Holocène
Holocène
13,208 corpus weight
- homéostasie
homéostasie
13,207 corpus weight
- houles
houles
13,206 corpus weight
- husband
husband
13,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « houles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ul\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « houles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
houles is uncommon French at frequency #86,795 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\ul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de houle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for houles in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is houles, spelled H-O-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de houle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how houles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les houles du large ne peuvent arriver directement jusqu’au littoral que pour un fuseau très étroit de provenances (plein Ouest).
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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