houppe
French, noun/up/
houppe is spelled H-O-U-P-P-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Houppe is a French feminine noun meaning “tuft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assemblage de plusieurs filets de laine, de soie, etc., liés ensemble de manière à former un bouquet, une…”.
What does houppe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetuft
- 2
femininetassel
- 3
femininepowder puff
- 4
femininetassel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Assemblage de plusieurs filets de laine, de soie, etc., liés ensemble de manière à former un bouquet, une touffe, un flocon. 2. Chez les hommes, touffe de cheveux sur le devant de la tête, toupet. 3. Touffe de soie qui termine un cordon de soie entrelacé et pendant du chapeau ; elle sert de timbre au chapeau des cardinaux, archevêques, évêques et protonotaires. 4. Huppe que certains oiseaux portent sur la tête.
adjective: 1. Qualifie une graine surmontée d’une houppe de poils.
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 houppe
- houppes plural
- ^((h aspiré))\up\ singular plural
- houppés plural masculine
- houppée singular feminine
- houppées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce houppe?
- /up/
- ^((h aspiré))\up\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to houppe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is houppe in French?
houppe appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).