Houllier
The verdict
“Houllier” is uncommon French (frequency #87,724 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,724
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houllier · Houllier · French
Houllier · rank #87,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,724
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Honshu
Nearest frequency peer: Honshu (-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 « Houllier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hollandisme
hollandisme
12,280 corpus weight
- honour
honour
12,279 corpus weight
- Honshu
Honshu
12,278 corpus weight
- Houllier
Houllier
12,277 corpus weight
- HTA
HTA
12,276 corpus weight
- hustler
hustler
12,274 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Houllier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Houllier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Houllier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Houllier is uncommon French at frequency #87,724 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Houllier has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Houllier, spelled H-O-U-L-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Houllier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les JO sont une opportunité. Notre logiciel a fait ses preuves à grande échelle dans une cinquantaine de collectivités territoriales. Le déployer dans un événement d’une telle ampleur, avec un afflux énorme de personnes concentrées sur quelques sites et dans les transports, serait une vitrine magnifique », estime le cofondateur Matthias Houllier.
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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