hoverboard
\o.vəʁ.bɔʁd\
The verdict
“hoverboard” is uncommon French (frequency #67,582 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,582
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule gyroscopique à deux roues qui se conduit de face, les pieds sur une plateforme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hoverboard · hoverboard · French
hoverboard · rank #67,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,582
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH horrifiés
Nearest frequency peer: horrifiés (-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 « hoverboard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hissant
hissant
32,422 corpus weight
- hissent
hissent
32,421 corpus weight
- horrifiés
horrifiés
32,420 corpus weight
- hoverboard
hoverboard
32,419 corpus weight
- hutin
hutin
32,418 corpus weight
- ifi
ifi
32,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hoverboard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoverboard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.vəʁ.bɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hoverboard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hoverboard is uncommon French at frequency #67,582 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.vəʁ.bɔʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hoverboard, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hoverboard, spelled H-O-V-E-R-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Véhicule gyroscopique à deux roues qui se conduit de face, les pieds sur une plateforme.
- 2Skateboard volant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hoverboard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis quelques années, de nombreux autres types d’engins se sont fait une place dans les villes françaises, comme la trottinette ou l’hoverboard, cette planche électrique munie de deux roues.
Les Engins de Déplacement Personnel motorisés (EDPm) contiennent les trottinettes électriques, gyropodes, hoverboards, segways, etc... ; ils se déplacent comme des vélos.
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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