hurricane
\y.ʁi.kan\
The verdict
“hurricane” is uncommon French (frequency #53,398 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,398
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tempête cyclonique propre à la zone intertropicale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hurricane · hurricane · French
hurricane · rank #53,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,398
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hunting
Nearest frequency peer: hunting (-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 « hurricane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Huysmans
Huysmans
46,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hurricane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hurricane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁi.kan\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hurricane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hurricane is uncommon French at frequency #53,398 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.ʁi.kan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tempête cyclonique propre à la zone intertropicale.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hurricane, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hurricane, spelled H-U-R-R-I-C-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Tempête cyclonique propre à la zone intertropicale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hurricane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors il trembla de tous ses membres, il savait que ce nuage lui apportait un hurricane. — Qu'est-ce qu'un hurricane ? demanda Robert d'une voix émue. — C'est un vent si effroyable, si fort, qu'il renverse les vaisseaux, les maisons; c'est quelque chose comme le simoun du désert.
Tous les rumbs sont là; le vent du Gulf-Stream […], le siroco, le mistral, le hurricane, les vents de sécheresse, les vents d'inondation, […]
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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