hydrophobe
\i.dʁɔ.fɔb\
The verdict
“hydrophobe” is uncommon French (frequency #86,800 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,800
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est atteint d’hydrophobie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hydrophobe · hydrophobe · French
hydrophobe · rank #86,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,800
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH husband
Nearest frequency peer: husband (-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 « hydrophobe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- houles
houles
13,206 corpus weight
- husband
husband
13,202 corpus weight
- hydrophobe
hydrophobe
13,201 corpus weight
- hydrure
hydrure
13,200 corpus weight
- hypnotisant
hypnotisant
13,199 corpus weight
- iad
iad
13,197 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hydrophobe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hydrophobe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.dʁɔ.fɔb\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hydrophobe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hydrophobe is uncommon French at frequency #86,800 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.dʁɔ.fɔb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hydrophobe, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is hydrophobe, spelled H-Y-D-R-O-P-H-O-B-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est atteint d’hydrophobie.
- 2Enragé. Qualifiait, jusqu’au début du XXᵉ siècle, un homme ou un animal enragé, l’hydrophobie étant un des symptômes de la rage.
- 3Se dit d’une substance, ou d’une portion de molécule, qui ne se dissout pas dans l’eau et qui n’a pas d’affinité avec elle.
- 4Nomme les surfaces qui repoussent l'eau, des surfaces non mouillables.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hydrophobe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est hydrophobe, il est incapable de s’approcher de la moindre goutte d’eau.
Tout cela ne nous empêcha pas de faire un excellent dîner, arrosé des meilleurs vins, assaisonné des plus aimables propos, et aussi de diaboliques épices indiennes qui feraient boire un hydrophobe.
Antonyms
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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