hachereau
^((h aspiré))\a.ʃə.ʁo\
The verdict
“hachereau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite hache, marteau tranchant d’un côté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hachereau · hachereau · French
hachereau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hachereau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃə.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hachereau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hachereau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃə.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hachereau, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hachereau, spelled H-A-C-H-E-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Petite hache, marteau tranchant d’un côté.
- 2Petite hache d’armes.
- 3Type de pierre taillée de la préhistoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hachereau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais aurait-il pu omettre de dresser à son tour la liste de ces houes et hoyaux, bêches et fourches, merlins et hachereaux, seaux et chaudrons, croissants et faucilles, tombereaux et charrettes, échelles et échelons, colliers et jougs, araires et versoirs dont l’inventaire méticuleux, acte après acte, testament après testament, bail après bail, avait occu…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.