haler
French, verb
haler is spelled H-A-L-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Haler is a French verb meaning “to haul, tow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, hâler is a different word: “to tan (cause skin to go brown)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer à soi avec force à l’aide d’un cordage”.
What does haler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to haul, tow
verb
- 1
to tan (cause skin to go brown)
- 2
to catch a tan, to get a tan
- 3
to sunbathe
- 4
datedto dry out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer à soi avec force à l’aide d’un cordage. 2. Faire avancer un bateau le long d’une rivière, d’un canal, etc., au moyen d’une corde tirée jadis à force de bras ou par des chevaux, à présent par un engin automoteur. 3. Tirer quelque chose. 4. Attacher avec une corde quelque objet embarrassant que l’on veut élever.
verb: 1. Exciter un chien par des cris.
verb: 1. Produire l’effet connu sous le nom de hâle. 2. Être hâlé, recevoir l’impression du hâle. 3. Labourer à une faible profondeur. 4. Dessécher, flétrir les végétaux.
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 haler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- halant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- halé participle past
- hale first-person indicative present
- hales indicative present second-person
- halons first-person indicative plural
- halez indicative plural present
- halent indicative plural present
- halais first-person imperfect indicative
- halait imperfect indicative singular
- halions first-person imperfect indicative
- haliez imperfect indicative plural
- halaient imperfect indicative plural
- halai first-person historic indicative
- halas historic indicative past
- hala historic indicative past
- halâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to haler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is haler in French?
haler appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).