hydrographie
\i.dʁɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“hydrographie” is uncommon French (frequency #60,080 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,080
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie de la topographie constituée par l’ensemble des eaux réparties à la surface de la terre, sous forme liquide ou solide, éventuellement dans le sous-sol, de façon permanente ou temporaire (riv...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydrographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dʁɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hydrographie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hydrographie is uncommon French at frequency #60,080 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.dʁɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hydrographie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 hydrographie, spelled H-Y-D-R-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de la topographie constituée par l’ensemble des eaux réparties à la surface de la terre, sous forme liquide ou solide, éventuellement dans le sous-sol, de façon permanente ou temporaire (rivières, fleuves, lacs, mers ; des profondeurs de la mer ; du régime des eaux fluviales ; des îles et des côtes).
- 2Représentation cartographique des éléments hydrographiques (rivières, fleuves, lacs, …) d’une région donnée.
- 3Technique ayant pour objet l’exécution et l’exploitation des observations topographiques relatives à la partie immergée de la surface terrestre.
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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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Using “hydrographie”
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- The one correct French spelling is H-Y-D-R-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.