huiler
^((h muet))\ɥi.le\
The verdict
“huiler” is uncommon French (frequency #92,833 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,833
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frotter avec de l’huile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huiler · huiler · French
huiler · rank #92,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,833
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hubei
Nearest frequency peer: Hubei (-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 « huiler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- household
household
7,172 corpus weight
- hoyos
hoyos
7,171 corpus weight
- Hubei
Hubei
7,169 corpus weight
- huiler
huiler
7,168 corpus weight
- huilerie
huilerie
7,167 corpus weight
- humanities
humanities
7,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huiler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huiler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\ɥi.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huiler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huiler is uncommon French at frequency #92,833 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h muet))\ɥi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for huiler, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is huiler, spelled H-U-I-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Frotter avec de l’huile.
- 2Fonctionner parfaitement, sans accroc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how huiler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Huiler un plat à gratin et répartir 250 g de penne cuites, recouvrir de la moitié de la sauce et de la moitié des cubes de mozzarella.
– Bon, j’ai fini de huiler mes armes, dit Augustus. On pourrait aussi bien partir mettre la nation cheyenne en déroute, si l’armée l’a pas déjà fait.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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