hachures
French, noun
hachures is spelled H-A-C-H-U-R-E-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hachures is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of hachure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, hachurés is a different word: “masculine plural of hachuré”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Figuration évocatrice du relief au moyen de traits disposés selon des lignes de plus grande pente”.
What does hachures mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of hachure
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of hachuré
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Figuration évocatrice du relief au moyen de traits disposés selon des lignes de plus grande pente.
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 hachures
- hachure singular
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is hachures in French?
hachures appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).