hussarde
^((h aspiré))\y.saʁd\
The verdict
“hussarde” is uncommon French (frequency #99,201 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,201
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme rappelant les hussards hongrois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hussarde · hussarde · French
hussarde · rank #99,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,201
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH humiliez
Nearest frequency peer: humiliez (-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 « hussarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- honnis
honnis
805 corpus weight
- humiliez
humiliez
801 corpus weight
- hussarde
hussarde
800 corpus weight
- hydrazine
hydrazine
799 corpus weight
- hypogée
hypogée
797 corpus weight
- hystérésis
hystérésis
796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hussarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hussarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\y.saʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hussarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hussarde is uncommon French at frequency #99,201 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\y.saʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hussarde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hussarde, spelled H-U-S-S-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Femme rappelant les hussards hongrois.
- 2Danse hongroise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hussarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il vaut mieux parfois être une hussarde écarlate, on peut se désempourprer.
En 1720, on faisait encore danser l'antiquaille aux comédiens de bois. La hussarde, et plus tard la fricassée, ont remplacé l’antiquaille, dont elles étaient des imitations.
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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