happer
^((h aspiré))\a.pe\
The verdict
“happer” is uncommon French (frequency #62,333 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,333
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saisir avidement avec la gueule ce qu’on lui jette, en parlant du chien et des animaux en général.
Corpus desk
Index FR-happer · happer · French
happer · rank #62,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,333
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hasbro
Nearest frequency peer: Hasbro (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « happer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- généralisent
généralisent
37,672 corpus weight
- happer
happer
37,668 corpus weight
- Hasbro
Hasbro
37,667 corpus weight
- Hays
Hays
37,666 corpus weight
- haze
haze
37,665 corpus weight
- henrietta
henrietta
37,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « happer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | happer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.pe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « happer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
happer is uncommon French at frequency #62,333 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\a.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
happer has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is happer, spelled H-A-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Saisir avidement avec la gueule ce qu’on lui jette, en parlant du chien et des animaux en général.
- 2Attraper, saisir, surprendre à l’improviste.
- 3Passionner, en général à propos d'une œuvre de fiction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how happer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chameau remplace, au Maroc, le chemin de fer et les voitures. […]; il se nourrit des herbes qu'il parvient à happer le long de la route; à l'étape, on lui donne de la paille ou du fourrage vert et une ration d'orge tous les trois jours.
On lui jeta un morceau, et il le happa.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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