hyoïde
\i.ɔ.id\
The verdict
“hyoïde” is uncommon French (frequency #92,839 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,839
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est situé à la racine de la langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hyoide · hyoïde · French
hyoïde · rank #92,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,839
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hurts
Nearest frequency peer: hurts (-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 « hyoïde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- humanities
humanities
7,165 corpus weight
- hurtado
hurtado
7,164 corpus weight
- hurts
hurts
7,163 corpus weight
- hyoïde
hyoïde
7,162 corpus weight
- héritait
héritait
7,161 corpus weight
- hériteront
hériteront
7,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hyoïde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hyoïde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.ɔ.id\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hyoïde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hyoïde is uncommon French at frequency #92,839 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.ɔ.id\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est situé à la racine de la langue.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hyoïde, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hyoïde, spelled H-Y-O-Ï-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est situé à la racine de la langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hyoïde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’expertise révéla que le premier squelette trouvé, celui d’un homme, présentait une fracture de l’os hyoïde tout à fait typique d’une mort par étranglement.
D’autres observations intéressent les paléontologues. L’os hyoïde – autrement appelé l’os lingual – est en effet, chose rarissime, en très bon état de conservation. Situé au-dessus du larynx, cet os joue un rôle important dans la capacité à articuler et à moduler des sons.
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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