hors
French, preposition/ɔʁ/
hors is spelled H-O-R-S (4 letters) and appears 120 times per million words in written French, the 685th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hors is a French preposition meaning “outside, out of, off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Préposition servant à marquer l’exclusion du lieu”.
What does hors mean in English?
preposition
- 1
outside, out of, off
hors la ville
- 2
datedapart from, if not, except, but
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
preposition: 1. Préposition servant à marquer l’exclusion du lieu. 2. Excepté. 3. Il s’employait devant les verbes à l’infinitif avec la préposition de et devant les autres modes verbaux avec la particule que. On dit aujourd’hui loin de et sauf que. 4. Marque toujours l’exclusion de la chose indiquée par le complément.
conjunction: 1. Variante orthographique de or.
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 hors?
- /ɔʁ/
- ^((h aspiré))\ɔʁ\
- [ɔʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hors
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hors in French?
hors appears 120 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).