hypokhâgne
\i.pɔ.kaɲ\
The verdict
“hypokhâgne” is uncommon French (frequency #85,806 among 109,908 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,806
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première année d’un cycle de deux ou trois ans de classe préparatoire littéraire qui conduit notamment aux concours des Écoles normales supérieures.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypokhâgne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.pɔ.kaɲ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hypokhâgne” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hypokhâgne is uncommon French at frequency #85,806 among 109,908 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.pɔ.kaɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première année d’un cycle de deux ou trois ans de classe préparatoire littéraire qui conduit notamment aux concours des Écoles normales supérieures.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hypokhâgne, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is hypokhâgne, spelled H-Y-P-O-K-H-Â-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première année d’un cycle de deux ou trois ans de classe préparatoire littéraire qui conduit notamment aux concours des Écoles normales supérieures.
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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Using “hypokhâgne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-Y-P-O-K-H-Â-G-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.