husband
\ˈhʌz.bənd\
The verdict
“husband” is uncommon French (frequency #86,799 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,799
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maître de maison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-husband · husband · French
husband · rank #86,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,799
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hydrophobe
Nearest frequency peer: hydrophobe (+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 « husband »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- homéostasie
homéostasie
13,207 corpus weight
- houles
houles
13,206 corpus weight
- husband
husband
13,202 corpus weight
- hydrophobe
hydrophobe
13,201 corpus weight
- hydrure
hydrure
13,200 corpus weight
- hypnotisant
hypnotisant
13,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « husband » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | husband |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhʌz.bənd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « husband » en français
Rare enough to double-check
husband is uncommon French at frequency #86,799 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhʌz.bənd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for husband in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is husband, spelled H-U-S-B-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Maître de maison.
- 2Laboureur.
- 3Gestionnaire prudent ou frugal.
- 4Mari, époux.
- 5Mâle, dans un couple d'animaux.
- 6Régisseur, intendant ; gestionnaire d'une propriété.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how husband appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a withered tree, through husbands toyle, Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […]
God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).