héler
French, verb/e.le/
héler is spelled H-É-L-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Héler is a French verb meaning “to hail (call out loudly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appeler, au moyen d’un porte-voix, à la rencontre d’un navire, pour demander d’où il est, où il va, ou pour…”.
What does héler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hail (call out loudly)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Appeler, au moyen d’un porte-voix, à la rencontre d’un navire, pour demander d’où il est, où il va, ou pour faire d’autres questions à l’équipage. 2. Appeler en se servant de ses mains comme porte-voix, interpeller.
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 héler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- hélant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- hélé participle past
- hèle first-person indicative present
- hèles indicative present second-person
- hélons first-person indicative plural
- hélez indicative plural present
- hèlent indicative plural present
- hélais first-person imperfect indicative
- hélait imperfect indicative singular
- hélions first-person imperfect indicative
- héliez imperfect indicative plural
- hélaient imperfect indicative plural
- hélai first-person historic indicative
- hélas historic indicative past
- héla historic indicative past
- hélâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce héler?
- /e.le/
- ^((h aspiré))\e.le\
- [e.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to héler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is héler in French?
héler appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).