huppe
^((h aspiré))\yp\
The verdict
“huppe” is uncommon French (frequency #69,908 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,908
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Touffe de plumes que certains oiseaux ont sur la tête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huppe · huppe · French
huppe · rank #69,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,908
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hormonales
Nearest frequency peer: hormonales (-2 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 « huppe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- horizontali…
horizontalité
30,096 corpus weight
- hormonales
hormonales
30,095 corpus weight
- huppe
huppe
30,093 corpus weight
- hémisphériq…
hémisphérique
30,091 corpus weight
- identifiait
identifiait
30,090 corpus weight
- ido
ido
30,089 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huppe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huppe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\yp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huppe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huppe is uncommon French at frequency #69,908 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\yp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for huppe in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 huppe, spelled H-U-P-P-E.
Definition
- 1Touffe de plumes que certains oiseaux ont sur la tête.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de différents oiseaux de l'ordre des bucérotiformes de couleur orangée et zébrés noir et blanc, possédant une huppe sur la tête (genre Upupa).
- 3Foyer de pourriture qui se trouve dans une pièce de bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how huppe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa huppe [de l’oiseau-mouche huppé, Ornismyia ornata, Lesson] est comme une émeraude du plus grand brillant ; c’est ce qui le distingue ; le reste de son plumage est assez obscur.
Ce fut sur ce tombeau [de Térée] que la huppe parut pour la première fois ; on en conclut que Térée avait été changé en cet oiseau.
This word in other languages
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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