haben

/\ˈhaːbn̩\/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#86,770

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

haben is aFrenchverb. It means: (suivi d’un participe passé) Forme les temps composés du passé, le parfait et le plus-que-parfait, de la plupart des verbes. Pronounced \ˈhaːbn̩\.

Key facts for haben
PropertyValue
Headwordhaben
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈhaːbn̩\
Letters5
Frequency rank#86,770
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of haben in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for haben is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈhaːbn̩\. Corpus data places it at rank #86,770 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 21 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for haben in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is haben, spelled H-A-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (suivi d’un participe passé) Forme les temps composés du passé, le parfait et le plus-que-parfait, de la plupart des verbes.
  2. 2
    Avoir, posséder.
  3. 3
    Avoir, indique une relation d'appartenance.
  4. 4
    Avoir (une caractéristique).
  5. 5
    Avoir à sa disposition.
  6. 6
    Avoir dans ce moment, dans la main, sur soi.
  7. 7
    Y avoir.
  8. 8
    Contenir.
  9. 9
    Avoir, venir d'obtenir.
  10. 10
    Avoir, être saisi de.
  11. 11
    Être obligé, devoir.
  12. 12
    Sentir, ressentir, avoir (une émotion).
  13. 13
    Se comporter.
  14. 14
    Avoir, être enseigné ou apprendre quelque chose à l'école, traiter un sujet à l’école.
  15. 15
    Être obligé à participer (à un évènement).
  16. 16
    zu haben sein : Être disponible, être possible à acheter.
  17. 17
    zu haben sein : Être disponible (sur le marché des partenaires), ne pas avoir de relation de couple.
  18. 18
    mit jemandem etwas haben : Avoir (une liaison amoureuse).
  19. 19
    für etwas zu haben sein : Aimer, avoir envie, être disponible ou partant pour.
  20. 20
    es mit etwas haben : Être doué, aimer, avoir intérêt en.
  21. 21
    Avoir le droit, employé surtout en négation.

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Frequency rank: #86,770 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "haben"?
"haben" is spelled H-A-B-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈhaːbn̩\.
What does "haben" mean?
As a verb, "haben" means: (suivi d’un participe passé) Forme les temps composés du passé, le parfait et le plus-que-parfait, de la plupart des verbes.
How do you pronounce "haben"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "haben" is \ˈhaːbn̩\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "haben" come from?
"haben" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.