haught
/hɔt/obsolete
haught is an adjective meaning “Haughty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-U-G-H-T and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does haught mean?
adjective
- 1
obsoleteHaughty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce haught?
- UK /hɔːt/
- US /hɔt/
- /hɑt/
Haught has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-haut.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of haught
- more haught comparative
- most haught superlative
- hawt
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is haught?
Haught appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).
Where does haught come from?
From Middle English haut, hault, from Old French haut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).