huss
\hʊs\
The verdict
“huss” is uncommon French (frequency #71,586 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,586
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de hussen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-huss · huss · French
huss · rank #71,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,586
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hurst
Nearest frequency peer: Hurst (-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 « huss »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Houria
Houria
28,419 corpus weight
- Hurst
Hurst
28,416 corpus weight
- huss
huss
28,415 corpus weight
- hypersexual…
hypersexualisation
28,414 corpus weight
- Héliopolis
Héliopolis
28,413 corpus weight
- ili
ili
28,411 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « huss » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | huss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hʊs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « huss » en français
Rare enough to double-check
huss is uncommon French at frequency #71,586 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \hʊs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de hussen.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for huss, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 huss, spelled H-U-S-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de hussen.
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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