huge
\hjuːdʒ\
The verdict
“huge” is uncommon French (frequency #65,993 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,993
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gigantesque, énorme, très grand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huge · huge · French
huge · rank #65,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,993
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homologuées
Nearest frequency peer: homologuées (-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 « huge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- heurs
heurs
34,013 corpus weight
- homologuées
homologuées
34,009 corpus weight
- huge
huge
34,008 corpus weight
- huppée
huppée
34,006 corpus weight
- hérisse
hérisse
34,004 corpus weight
- Icarus
Icarus
34,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \hjuːdʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huge is uncommon French at frequency #65,993 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \hjuːdʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for huge, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is huge, spelled H-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Gigantesque, énorme, très grand.
- 2Très fort, puissant ou dévoué.
- 3Sensass, génial, super, formidable, énorme (figuré).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how huge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The result will be computed quickly, even for huge numbers consisting of hundreds of digits, because Euclid's algorithm is extremely efficient.
Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.
Synonyms
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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