crosshatching
noun, verb
crosshatching is a noun meaning “A method of showing shading by means of multiple small lines that intersect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-O-S-S-H-A-T-C-H-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of crosshatching is crosshatchings.
What does crosshatching mean?
noun
- 1
A method of showing shading by means of multiple small lines that intersect.
- 2
A method of indicating terrain on a map by using the same technique.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of crosshatch
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of crosshatching
- crosshatchings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is crosshatching?
Crosshatching appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).
Crosshatching in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a method of showing shading by means of multiple small intersecting lines:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | hachura |
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.