houppe
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6 characters
Language
French
word origin
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houppe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de plusieurs filets de laine, de soie, etc., liés ensemble de manière à former un bouquet, une touffe, un flocon. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\up\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houppe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\up\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for houppe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\up\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for houppe in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is houppe, spelled H-O-U-P-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assemblage de plusieurs filets de laine, de soie, etc., liés ensemble de manière à former un bouquet, une touffe, un flocon.
- 2Chez les hommes, touffe de cheveux sur le devant de la tête, toupet.
- 3Touffe 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.
- 4Huppe que certains oiseaux portent sur la tête.
- 5Petite touffe étalée de poils en quelque partie du corps d’un animal.
- 6Petite touffe de poils étalés à l’extrémité d’une graine.
- 7La tête d’un arbre, son faîte, sa cime.
- 8Toison lavée et préparée pour être filée.
- 9Bout de fil d’or, d’argent ou de ruban effilé qui déborde le fer de l’aiguillette.
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