HAP
French, noun
HAP is spelled H-A-P (3 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,186th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). HAP is a French masculine noun meaning “initialism of hydrocarbure aromatique polycyclique: PAH” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hydrocarbure aromatique polycyclique”.
What does HAP mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinitialism of hydrocarbure aromatique polycyclique: PAH
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Hydrocarbure aromatique polycyclique.
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.
English words that translate to HAP
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is HAP in French?
HAP appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).