hachage
^((h aspiré))\a.ʃaʒ\
The verdict
“hachage” is uncommon French (frequency #66,783 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,783
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de hacher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hachage · hachage · French
hachage · rank #66,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,783
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habré
Nearest frequency peer: habré (-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 « hachage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gy
Gy
33,221 corpus weight
- gyrophares
gyrophares
33,220 corpus weight
- habré
habré
33,219 corpus weight
- hachage
hachage
33,218 corpus weight
- hackathon
hackathon
33,217 corpus weight
- hala
hala
33,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hachage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hachage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hachage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hachage is uncommon French at frequency #66,783 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hachage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hachage, spelled H-A-C-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de hacher.
- 2Transformation d’une tension continue en une série de pulsations.
- 3Technique de massage thérapeutique où la main du masseur frappe par son bord cubital.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hachage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La peine que j’avais eue durant le printemps et l’automne pour préparer et faire l’ensemencement des grains, l’enlèvement et la plantation des pommes de terre, le battage des blés et le hachage de la paille, m’avait convaincu que la substitution d’une machine à vapeur au manège pour faire les travaux intérieurs serait en définitive au moins avantageuse, s…
La percussion : dans ce procédé, les deux mains heurtent la région à traiter, soit par le bord cubital (hachage), soit par la paume (clapping), soit avec la pulpe des doigts, soit avec le poing fermé, plus ou moins fortement. (Judet 1986 : 59)
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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