hunting
\ˈhʌn.tɪŋ\
The verdict
“hunting” is uncommon French (frequency #53,397 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,397
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hunting · hunting · French
hunting · rank #53,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,397
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH huguenot
Nearest frequency peer: huguenot (-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 « hunting »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hor
hor
46,607 corpus weight
- houla
houla
46,606 corpus weight
- huguenot
huguenot
46,605 corpus weight
- hunting
hunting
46,604 corpus weight
- hurricane
hurricane
46,603 corpus weight
- Hutton
Hutton
46,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hunting » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hunting |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhʌn.tɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hunting » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hunting is uncommon French at frequency #53,397 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhʌn.tɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chasse.".
hunting has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 hunting, spelled H-U-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Chasse.
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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