hurler
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,012
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
hurler is aFrenchverb. It means: Pousser des cris prolongés, en parlant des loups et des chiens. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\yʁ.le\. Often confused with Huxley and Hurley.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hurler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\yʁ.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hurler is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\yʁ.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,012 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for hurler, with forms such as "hhurler", "hruler", and "hulrer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Huxley", "Hurley", "huer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hurler, spelled H-U-R-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pousser des cris prolongés, en parlant des loups et des chiens.
- 2Pousser des cris humains, dans la douleur, dans la colère, l’exaltation, etc.
- 3Parler, crier, chanter très fort, de toutes ses forces.
- 4Parler avec emportement, avec le ton de la fureur.
- 5Rendre un bruit semblable à un hurlement prolongé.
- 6Alerter.
- 7Rire intensément. Souligner un caractère dérisoire.
- 8Témoigner un fort sentiment d’étonnement, voire de perplexité, d’irritation ou au contraire d’enthousiasme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhurler,hruler,hulrer,hurelr,hurlerr,hurller,hurlre,hurrler,uhrler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "hurler"
Frequency rank: #10,012 in French
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