hypogée
\i.pɔ.ʒe\
The verdict
“hypogée” is uncommon French (frequency #99,204 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,204
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construction souterraine où les anciens déposaient leurs morts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hypogee · hypogée · French
hypogée · rank #99,204 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,204
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hystérésis
Nearest frequency peer: hystérésis (+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 « hypogée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- humiliez
humiliez
801 corpus weight
- hussarde
hussarde
800 corpus weight
- hydrazine
hydrazine
799 corpus weight
- hypogée
hypogée
797 corpus weight
- hystérésis
hystérésis
796 corpus weight
- héliotrope
héliotrope
794 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hypogée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypogée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.pɔ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hypogée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hypogée is uncommon French at frequency #99,204 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.pɔ.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Construction souterraine où les anciens déposaient leurs morts.".
Zero misspellings are on record for hypogée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hypogée, spelled H-Y-P-O-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Construction souterraine où les anciens déposaient leurs morts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hypogée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grottes sépulcrales nous semblent, par leur nature, appartenir aux temps primitifs de la civilisation dans la vallée du Nil ; cependant, nous devons dire que les célèbres hypogées de la vallée des Rois, à Thèbes ne remontent en générale qu’à la dix-huitième et à la dix-neuvième dynastie.
Les hypogées de Syout sont pour la plupart de vastes chambres carrées dont les parois sont chargées d’hiéroglyphes et de représentations qui se rapportent à l’art militaire.
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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