hydravion
\i.dʁa.vjɔ̃\
The verdict
“hydravion” is uncommon French (frequency #51,522 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,522
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avion qui est construit pour s’élever sur l’eau et s’y reposer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hydravion · hydravion · French
hydravion · rank #51,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,522
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hypersensibil…
Nearest frequency peer: hypersensibilité (+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 « hydravion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Holtz
Holtz
48,483 corpus weight
- honni
honni
48,481 corpus weight
- hydravion
hydravion
48,479 corpus weight
- hypersensib…
hypersensibilité
48,478 corpus weight
- icebergs
icebergs
48,476 corpus weight
- ichi
ichi
48,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hydravion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydravion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dʁa.vjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hydravion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hydravion is uncommon French at frequency #51,522 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.dʁa.vjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avion qui est construit pour s’élever sur l’eau et s’y reposer.".
hydravion has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hydravion, spelled H-Y-D-R-A-V-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Avion qui est construit pour s’élever sur l’eau et s’y reposer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hydravion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’énorme hydravion Do X avec lequel les Allemands se proposent de transporter un nombre important de passagers et du fret d’Allemagne aux États-Unis, apparaîtra comme trop grand pour son utilisation dans un but pratique.
Maintenant, l’avion avait fait place à un hydravion, car on survolait le Nil qui offrait de magnifiques plans d’eau.
This word in other languages
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).