hachoir

/^((h aspiré))\a.ʃwaʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,874

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hachoir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mécanisme, machine, domestique ou industrielle, manuelle ou automatisée destinées à hacher diverses choses. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃwaʁ\.

Key facts for hachoir
PropertyValue
Headwordhachoir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA^((h aspiré))\a.ʃwaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#50,874
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for hachoir is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,874 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for hachoir in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 hachoir, spelled H-A-C-H-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mécanisme, machine, domestique ou industrielle, manuelle ou automatisée destinées à hacher diverses choses.
  2. 2
    Sorte d'instrument pour hacher des matières molles.
  3. 3
    Grand couteau pour hacher les ingrédients de cuisine.
  4. 4
    Instrument pour hacher la viande.
  5. 5
    Instrument domestique, tranchant, à lame courbe simple ou multiples, munie d’une poignée de chaque côté, destiné à hacher des substance alimentaires. On le nomme aussi demi-lune ou hachoir berceuse.
  6. 6
    Petite table épaisse, billot où l’on met les viandes pour les hacher.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #50,874 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hachoir"?
"hachoir" is spelled H-A-C-H-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃwaʁ\.
What does "hachoir" mean?
As a noun, "hachoir" means: Mécanisme, machine, domestique ou industrielle, manuelle ou automatisée destinées à hacher diverses choses.
How do you pronounce "hachoir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hachoir" is ^((h aspiré))\a.ʃwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hachoir" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.