Haus
\haʊ̯s\
The verdict
“Haus” is an uncommon French word, ranked #56,013 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #56,013
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maison, bâtiment d’habitation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Haus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \haʊ̯s\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Haus” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Haus is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
Haus has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Haus, spelled H-A-U-S.
Definition
- 1Maison, bâtiment d’habitation.
- 2Maisonnée, famille.
- 3Maison, dynastie.
- 4Maison, entreprise.
- 5Chambre d'un parlement, organe législatif.
- 6Personne, individu, gars.
- 7Coquille, carapace, test d'un animal, principalement pour les gastéropodes.
- 8Maison, un des fuseaux obtenu après division du ciel par les astrologues afin d’établir un thème astral.
- 9Partie centrale de la tête d'un marteau.
- 10Maison, zone délimitée par les trois cercles au curling.
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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Using “Haus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-A-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \haʊ̯s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.