hundred
\ˈhandrɛd\
The verdict
“hundred” is uncommon French (frequency #62,348 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,348
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour un simple nombre de centaines: 300 'three hundred' ou 'three zero zero', mais 345 'three four five'.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hundred · hundred · French
hundred · rank #62,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,348
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH houses
Nearest frequency peer: houses (-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 « hundred »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- homéopathe
homéopathe
37,656 corpus weight
- homéopathiq…
homéopathiques
37,655 corpus weight
- houses
houses
37,654 corpus weight
- hundred
hundred
37,653 corpus weight
- hussard
hussard
37,652 corpus weight
- hypnotiques
hypnotiques
37,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hundred » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hundred |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhandrɛd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hundred » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hundred is uncommon French at frequency #62,348 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhandrɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour un simple nombre de centaines: 300 'three hundred' ou 'three zero zero', mais 345 'three four five'.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hundred, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hundred, spelled H-U-N-D-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour un simple nombre de centaines: 300 'three hundred' ou 'three zero zero', mais 345 'three four five'.
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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