haussa
^((h aspiré))\o.sa\
The verdict
“haussa” is uncommon French (frequency #52,731 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,731
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de hausser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haussa · haussa · French
haussa · rank #52,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,731
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Haroun
Nearest frequency peer: Haroun (-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 « haussa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Götze
Götze
47,273 corpus weight
- Haroun
Haroun
47,271 corpus weight
- haussa
haussa
47,270 corpus weight
- haussant
haussant
47,269 corpus weight
- haïtiennes
haïtiennes
47,268 corpus weight
- heads
heads
47,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haussa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haussa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.sa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haussa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haussa is uncommon French at frequency #52,731 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\o.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de hausser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for haussa in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is haussa, spelled H-A-U-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de hausser.
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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