huck
\hʌk\
The verdict
“huck” is uncommon French (frequency #68,346 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,346
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huck · huck · French
huck · rank #68,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,346
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hossegor
Nearest frequency peer: Hossegor (-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 « huck »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hortensia
hortensia
31,658 corpus weight
- Hossegor
Hossegor
31,656 corpus weight
- huck
huck
31,655 corpus weight
- humer
humer
31,654 corpus weight
- hydrographi…
hydrographiques
31,653 corpus weight
- hédonisme
hédonisme
31,652 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huck » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huck |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hʌk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huck » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huck is uncommon French at frequency #68,346 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \hʌk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for huck, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is huck, spelled H-U-C-K.
Definition
- 1Jeter.
- 2Se jeter d'un grand saut ou d'une chute.
- 3Lancer son corps en l'air, éventuellement d'une manière peu gracieuse ou manquant d'adresse.
- 4Jeter son frisbee sur une longue distance.
- 5Tenter un saut ou une chute particulièrement importante, souvent de façon désordonnée.
- 6Faire une manœuvre de manière maladroite.
- 7Pagayer une chute d'eau ou faire une grosse chute.
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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