hanter
French, verb/ɑ̃.te/
hanter is spelled H-A-N-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hanter is a French verb meaning “to haunt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fréquenter quelqu’un que l’on suppose de mauvaise influence ou sur lequel on exerce une mauvaise influence”.
What does hanter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to haunt
- 2
to frequent
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fréquenter quelqu’un que l’on suppose de mauvaise influence ou sur lequel on exerce une mauvaise influence. 2. Fréquenter quelque lieu mal famé ou sur lequel on exerce une mauvaise influence. 3. Revenir de l’autre monde, en parlant des esprits. 4. Remplir, occuper de manière tenace la mémoire ou la pensée de quelqu’un.
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 hanter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- hantant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- hanté participle past
- hante first-person indicative present
- hantes indicative present second-person
- hantons first-person indicative plural
- hantez indicative plural present
- hantent indicative plural present
- hantais first-person imperfect indicative
- hantait imperfect indicative singular
- hantions first-person imperfect indicative
- hantiez imperfect indicative plural
- hantaient imperfect indicative plural
- hantai first-person historic indicative
- hantas historic indicative past
- hanta historic indicative past
- hantâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hanter?
- /ɑ̃.te/
- ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.te\
- \ɑ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hanter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hanter in French?
hanter appears 1.3 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).