haussement
^((h aspiré))\os.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“haussement” is uncommon French (frequency #64,499 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,499
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de hausser quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haussement · haussement · French
haussement · rank #64,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,499
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH handle
Nearest frequency peer: handle (-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 « haussement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- habert
habert
35,505 corpus weight
- handel
handel
35,504 corpus weight
- handle
handle
35,503 corpus weight
- haussement
haussement
35,502 corpus weight
- Heim
Heim
35,501 corpus weight
- herder
herder
35,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haussement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haussement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\os.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haussement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haussement is uncommon French at frequency #64,499 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\os.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for haussement, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 haussement, spelled H-A-U-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de hausser quelque chose.
- 2Mouvement qu’on fait des épaules, pour marquer de l’indignation ou du mépris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haussement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh bien ! sir Francis Trevellyan n’a que des regards de mépris et des haussements d’épaules pour tout ce que nous avons fait.
— C’est idiot ! déclara nettement celui-ci, avec un haussement d’épaules.
This word in other languages
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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