hachure
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
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hachure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de hacher. Pronounced \a.ʃyʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hachure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʃyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hachure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʃyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for hachure 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 hachure, spelled H-A-C-H-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de hacher.
- 2Traits fins, parallèles ou croisés les uns sur les autres par lesquels on forme les demi-teintes et les ombres.
- 3Type de figuré fait de traits par lesquels on marque l’altitude des montagnes, la ligne des côtes ou un autre zonage.
- 4Traits ou points dont on se sert pour marquer la différence des couleurs et des métaux.
- 5Sur une représentation de type « section » ou « coupe » : traits fins, parallèles et régulièrement espacés, continus ou discontinus, indiquant les zones coupées (c’est-à-dire les intersections du plan de section ou de coupe avec les pièces).
- 6Technique de massage thérapeutique qui consiste à utiliser le bord cubital de la main en extension pour percuter la partie visée.
- 7Entailles pratiquées sur les métaux avant de les dorer ou de les argenter.
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