hydromel
\i.dʁɔ.mɛl\
The verdict
“hydromel” is uncommon French (frequency #56,657 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,657
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisson ou breuvage, fermenté ou non, composé d’eau et de miel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hydromel · hydromel · French
hydromel · rank #56,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,657
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Huygens
Nearest frequency peer: Huygens (-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 « hydromel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- huff
huff
43,347 corpus weight
- hutch
hutch
43,346 corpus weight
- Huygens
Huygens
43,345 corpus weight
- hydromel
hydromel
43,344 corpus weight
- hydroxyde
hydroxyde
43,343 corpus weight
- héritera
héritera
43,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hydromel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydromel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dʁɔ.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hydromel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hydromel is uncommon French at frequency #56,657 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.dʁɔ.mɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boisson ou breuvage, fermenté ou non, composé d’eau et de miel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hydromel, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 hydromel, spelled H-Y-D-R-O-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Boisson ou breuvage, fermenté ou non, composé d’eau et de miel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hydromel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il reçut néanmoins bon accueil : la Waïzoro fit circuler l’hydromel, mais sans plus s’occuper de lui; […].
Il déménage délicatement les essaims, il soigne les reines malades et va porter aux ruches d’hiver les bols d’hydromel délayé.
Synonyms
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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