Haus

/\haʊ̯s\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,013

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Haus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maison, bâtiment d’habitation. Pronounced \haʊ̯s\.

Key facts for Haus
PropertyValue
HeadwordHaus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\haʊ̯s\
Letters4
Frequency rank#56,013
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Haus in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Haus is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \haʊ̯s\. Corpus data places it at rank #56,013 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Haus 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 Haus, spelled H-A-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maison, bâtiment d’habitation.
  2. 2
    Maisonnée, famille.
  3. 3
    Maison, dynastie.
  4. 4
    Maison, entreprise.
  5. 5
    Chambre d'un parlement, organe législatif.
  6. 6
    Personne, individu, gars.
  7. 7
    Coquille, carapace, test d'un animal, principalement pour les gastéropodes.
  8. 8
    Maison, un des fuseaux obtenu après division du ciel par les astrologues afin d’établir un thème astral.
  9. 9
    Partie centrale de la tête d'un marteau.
  10. 10
    Maison, zone délimitée par les trois cercles au curling.

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Frequency rank: #56,013 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Haus"?
"Haus" is spelled H-A-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is \haʊ̯s\.
What does "Haus" mean?
As a noun, "Haus" means: Maison, bâtiment d’habitation.
How do you pronounce "Haus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Haus" is \haʊ̯s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Haus" come from?
"Haus" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.