haubert
^((h aspiré))\o.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“haubert” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de cuirasse ancienne ou de cotte de mailles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haubert · haubert · French
haubert · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haubert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
haubert is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\o.bɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for haubert, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is haubert, spelled H-A-U-B-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de cuirasse ancienne ou de cotte de mailles.
- 2Fief de haubert : Fief dont le possesseur s'engageait à servir son suzerain contre le droit de porter une cotte de mailles. On dit aussi fief de haubergeon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haubert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En une heure de tête à tête public, dans un coin, sur un divan, la duchesse amena d’Esgrignon aux générosités scipionesques, aux dévouements amadisiens, aux abnégations du moyen âge qui commençait alors à montrer ses dagues, ses mâchicoulis, ses cottes, ses hauberts, ses souliers à la poulaine, et tout son romantique attirail de carton peint.
Un jeune homme… – traçons son portrait d’un seul trait de plume : — figurez-vous don Quichotte à dix-huit ans, don Quichotte décorcelé, sans haubert et sans cuissard, don Quichotte revêtu d’un pourpoint de laine dont la couleur bleue s’était transformée en une nuance insaisissable de lie-de-vin et d’azur céleste.
This word in other languages
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