crosshatch
noun, verb
crosshatch is a noun meaning “A pattern of crossing lines” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-O-S-S-H-A-T-C-H, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of crosshatch is crosshatches.
What does crosshatch mean?
noun
- 1
A pattern of crossing lines.
verb
- 1
To mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce crosshatch?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-crosshatch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of crosshatch
- crosshatches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cross-hatch
- crosshatching participle, present
- crosshatched participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is crosshatch?
Crosshatch appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Crosshatch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hachure , hachurer |
| German | Schraffierung , schraffieren |
| Spanish | sombreado , sombrear |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does crosshatch come from?
From cross- + hatch.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).