hustler
\ˈhʌs.lɚ\
The verdict
“hustler” is uncommon French (frequency #87,727 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,727
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Escroc, en particulier escroc qui prétend être amateur à un jeu et qui gagne à la fin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hustler · hustler · French
hustler · rank #87,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,727
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hypocondrie
Nearest frequency peer: hypocondrie (+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 « hustler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- honour
honour
12,279 corpus weight
- Honshu
Honshu
12,278 corpus weight
- Houllier
Houllier
12,277 corpus weight
- HTA
HTA
12,276 corpus weight
- hustler
hustler
12,274 corpus weight
- hypocondrie
hypocondrie
12,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hustler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hustler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhʌs.lɚ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hustler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hustler is uncommon French at frequency #87,727 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhʌs.lɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hustler in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hustler, spelled H-U-S-T-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Escroc, en particulier escroc qui prétend être amateur à un jeu et qui gagne à la fin.
- 2Giton, prostitué.
- 3Mac, proxénète.
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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