hungry
\ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi\
The verdict
“hungry” is uncommon French (frequency #73,234 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,234
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affamés, ceux qui ont faim.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hungry · hungry · French
hungry · rank #73,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,234
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hunan
Nearest frequency peer: Hunan (-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 « hungry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- horticulteu…
horticulteurs
26,771 corpus weight
- hots
hots
26,770 corpus weight
- Hunan
Hunan
26,768 corpus weight
- hungry
hungry
26,767 corpus weight
- hygiénistes
hygiénistes
26,765 corpus weight
- héparine
héparine
26,764 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hungry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hungry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hungry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hungry is uncommon French at frequency #73,234 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affamés, ceux qui ont faim.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hungry in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hungry, spelled H-U-N-G-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Affamés, ceux qui ont faim.
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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