hachure
French, noun
hachure is a French feminine noun meaning “a crosshatching line” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, hachuré is a different word: “past participle of hachurer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de hacher”.
What does hachure mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea crosshatching line
- 2
femininea mapping hachure or the technique itself
- 3
femininerareSomething minced
verb
- 1
past participle of hachurer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de hacher. 2. Traits fins, parallèles ou croisés les uns sur les autres par lesquels on forme les demi-teintes et les ombres. 3. Type de figuré fait de traits par lesquels on marque l’altitude des montagnes, la ligne des côtes ou un autre zonage. 4. Traits ou points dont on se sert pour marquer la différence des couleurs et des métaux.
noun: 1. Ligne de structure fine mais perceptible à l’œil.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hachure
- hachures plural
- hachurée feminine
- hachurés masculine plural
- hachurées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hachure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hachure in French?
hachure appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).