huon
^((h aspiré))\y.ɔ̃\
The verdict
“huon” is uncommon French (frequency #76,662 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,662
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chat-huant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huon · huon · French
huon · rank #76,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,662
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hydroponique
Nearest frequency peer: hydroponique (+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 « huon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- huileuse
huileuse
23,343 corpus weight
- Huningue
Huningue
23,341 corpus weight
- huon
huon
23,339 corpus weight
- hydroponique
hydroponique
23,338 corpus weight
- hyperglycém…
hyperglycémie
23,336 corpus weight
- hégémoniques
hégémoniques
23,334 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\y.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huon is uncommon French at frequency #76,662 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\y.ɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chat-huant.".
huon has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is huon, spelled H-U-O-N.
Definition
- 1Chat-huant.
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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