hulle
The verdict
“hulle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronom personnel sujet ou objet de la troisième personne du pluriel : ils, elles, les, leur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hulle · hulle · French
hulle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hulle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hulle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hulle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pronom personnel sujet ou objet de la troisième personne du pluriel : ils, elles, les, leur.".
hulle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hulle, spelled H-U-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pronom personnel sujet ou objet de la troisième personne du pluriel : ils, elles, les, leur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hulle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hulle is van Namibië.
Ek gee vir hulle ’n appel.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.