habert

^((h aspiré))\a.bɛʁ\

/^((h aspiré))\a.bɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“habert” is uncommon French (frequency #64,496 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,496
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maisonnette d'alpage à l’usage des bergers.

Corpus desk

Index FR-habert · habert · French

habert · rank #64,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,496
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH handel

Nearest frequency peer: handel (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « habert »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « habert » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for habert
PropertyValue
Headwordhabert
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h aspiré))\a.bɛʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#64,496
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « habert » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).haberttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « handel » (#64,497), « gyroscope » (#64,494), « handle » (#64,498). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « habert » est au #64,496. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

habert is uncommon French at frequency #64,496 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.bɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maisonnette d'alpage à l’usage des bergers.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for habert, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is habert, spelled H-A-B-E-R-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maisonnette d'alpage à l’usage des bergers.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how habert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. D’abord ces vides domestiqués des champs et des clochers, puis celui des forêts frémissantes et le vide berceur des alpages chamarrés de haberts et de troupeaux.
  2. Dès six heures nous étions tous là, quatre-vingts hommes : pères, fils, frères et grands-pères, ravis d’entendre notre Langlois se débrouiller dans tous nos lieux-dits, nos vallons, nos crêtes, nos haberts, nos jas, et nos pistes les plus secrètes.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "habert"?
"habert" is spelled H-A-B-E-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\a.bɛʁ\.
What does "habert" mean?
As a noun, "habert" means: Maisonnette d'alpage à l’usage des bergers.
How do you pronounce "habert"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "habert" is ^((h aspiré))\a.bɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "habert" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "habert", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list