hameau
French, noun/a.mo/
hameau is spelled H-A-M-E-A-U (6 letters) and appears 4.0 times per million words in written French, the 13,132nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hameau is a French masculine noun meaning “hamlet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “En milieu rural, groupe d’habitations à l’écart d’une commune, à laquelle il est rattaché administrativement”.
What does hameau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehamlet
J’habite dans la cité, moi, mais mon ami-ci habite dans le hameau.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. En milieu rural, groupe d’habitations à l’écart d’une commune, à laquelle il est rattaché administrativement.
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 hameau
- hameaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hameau?
- /a.mo/
- ^((h aspiré))\a.mo\
- \œ̃ a.mo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hameau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hameau in French?
hameau appears 4.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).