hygiene
\haɪdʒiːn\
The verdict
“hygiene” is uncommon French (frequency #61,599 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,599
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hygiène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hygiene · hygiene · French
hygiene · rank #61,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,599
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hydrates
Nearest frequency peer: hydrates (-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 « hygiene »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- housing
housing
38,406 corpus weight
- hustle
hustle
38,404 corpus weight
- hydrates
hydrates
38,403 corpus weight
- hygiene
hygiene
38,402 corpus weight
- hypothalamus
hypothalamus
38,401 corpus weight
- hébraïques
hébraïques
38,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hygiene » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hygiene |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \haɪdʒiːn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hygiene » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hygiene is uncommon French at frequency #61,599 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \haɪdʒiːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for hygiene in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hygiene, spelled H-Y-G-I-E-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hygiène.
- 2Hygiène, propreté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hygiene appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The teaching of domestic economy and hygiene to girls […] will, through a knowledge of underlying principles, tend to convert what is too often in the home an unintelligent drudgery into an interesting and even attractive service. It will dignify housecraft and add to the health, comfort, and happiness of the family.
Synonyms
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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