huissier
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,158
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
huissier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Officier qui se tient dans l’antichambre des ministres, des hauts fonctionnaires, etc., pour introduire les personnes qu’ils reçoivent. Pronounced \ɥi.sje\. Often confused with huissiers and hisser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huissier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɥi.sje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for huissier is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɥi.sje\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,158 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for huissier, with forms such as "hhuissier", "hiussier", and "huisier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "huissiers", "hisser", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is huissier, spelled H-U-I-S-S-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Officier qui se tient dans l’antichambre des ministres, des hauts fonctionnaires, etc., pour introduire les personnes qu’ils reçoivent.
- 2Officier dont la charge était d’ouvrir et de fermer la porte du cabinet du roi, de la reine et des princes.
- 3Gens préposés pour faire le service des séances de certains corps, de certaines assemblées délibérantes.
- 4Officier ministériel principalement chargé de signifier les actes de justice, de mettre à exécution les jugements, etc., et dont plusieurs font le service des audiences du tribunal auquel ils appartiennent.
- 5Celui dont la fonction est de signifier et faire exécuter les obligations de dettes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhuissier,hiussier,huisier,huisiser,huisseir,huissierr,huissire,husisier,uhissier
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for huissier
Misspelling Variants of "huissier"
Frequency rank: #15,158 in French
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