hausse
French, noun
hausse is spelled H-A-U-S-S-E (6 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written French, the 2,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hausse is a French feminine noun meaning “rise, increase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of hausser. With an accent, haussé is a different word: “past participle of hausser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de hausser”.
What does hausse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerise, increase
Une hausse du nombre d'étrangers.
- 2
femininefrog (of a bow)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of hausser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de hausser. 2. Augmentation du prix des denrées ou du cours des changes, de la valeur des effets publics, etc. 3. Dispositif optique permettant de régler la ligne de visée. 4. Dispositif qui sert à éloigner les crins de la baguette.
adjective: 1. Se dit d'une pièce principale posée plus haut qu’à l’ordinaire
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hausse
- hausses plural
- haussée feminine
- haussés masculine plural
- haussées feminine plural
- ^((h aspiré))\os\ singular plural
- ^((h aspiré))\o.se\ singular masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hausse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hausse in French?
hausse appears 34 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).