haie
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,379
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
haie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble linéaire, naturel ou artificiel, de végétaux (dont parfois des arbres), ligneux, semi-ligneux, herbacés, plus ou moins homogène (taille, espèces, etc.) et servant parfois de clôture, de li... Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɛ\. Often confused with He and hi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for haie is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\ɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,379 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for haie, with forms such as "ahie", "haei", and "hhaie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "He", "hi", "han", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 haie, spelled H-A-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble linéaire, naturel ou artificiel, de végétaux (dont parfois des arbres), ligneux, semi-ligneux, herbacés, plus ou moins homogène (taille, espèces, etc.) et servant parfois de clôture, de limite entre deux parcelles cadastrales ou de protection contre la vue et le vent ou simplement dans un but purement décoratif.
- 2Obstacle qui doit être franchi par le concurrent qui participe à une course.
- 3Se dit d’un obstacle empêchant le passage, comme un long banc d’écueils.
- 4Disposition donnée aux briques que l’on souhaite faire sécher.
- 5File de personnes (soldats, gardes, curieux, etc.) bordant une voie pour laisser le passage à quelqu’un ou à un cortège.
- 6Age de la charrue.
- 7Meuble représentant une clôture avec ou sans arbustes dans les armoiries. Elle est composée de piquets reliés par des fils ou des branches. À rapprocher de barrière et palissade.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahie,haei,hhaie,hiae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for haie
Misspelling Variants of "haie"
Frequency rank: #16,379 in French
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