hauban
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
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hauban is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gros cordage ou fil d’acier qui va du bord du navire à la tête des mâts ou des hunes, où il est fixé avec la raideur convenable, et qui sert principalement à soutenir les mâts contre l’effort du ro... Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\o.bɑ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hauban |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for hauban is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\o.bɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hauban in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hauban, spelled H-A-U-B-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gros cordage ou fil d’acier qui va du bord du navire à la tête des mâts ou des hunes, où il est fixé avec la raideur convenable, et qui sert principalement à soutenir les mâts contre l’effort du roulis.
- 2Échelles de corde par lesquelles on monte dans la mâture.
- 3Sorte de câble qui assure la tension des parties d'un avion.
- 4Gros cordages dont on se sert pour maintenir les grues, les chèvres.
- 5Appareil de câbles pour assurer la stabilité d’un ouvrage d’art.
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