hiatus
French, noun/ja.tys/
hiatus is spelled H-I-A-T-U-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 38,202nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hiatus is a French masculine noun meaning “hiatus, gap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Succession immédiate de deux voyelles qui appartiennent à des syllabes différentes du même mot (héroïque), ou…”.
What does hiatus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehiatus, gap
- 2
masculinehiatus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Succession immédiate de deux voyelles qui appartiennent à des syllabes différentes du même mot (héroïque), ou à la frontière de deux mots (Nous sommes à Avignon). 2. (Concret) Ouverture. 3. (Abstrait) Écart, manque de continuité entre deux notions, principes, idées... 4. Espace de temps séparant deux événements.
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.
How do you pronounce hiatus?
- /ja.tys/
- ^((h muet))\ja.tys\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hiatus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hiatus in French?
hiatus appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).