houx
French, noun/u/
houx is spelled H-O-U-X (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 45,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Houx is a French masculine noun meaning “holly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arbre toujours vert, de la famille des aquifoliacées, dont les feuilles sont luisantes et armées de piquants…”.
What does houx mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineholly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arbre toujours vert, de la famille des aquifoliacées, dont les feuilles sont luisantes et armées de piquants et dont le fruit est une baie d’un très beau rouge.
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 houx
- ^((h aspiré))\u\
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce houx?
- /u/
- ^((h aspiré))\u\
- [u]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to houx
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is houx in French?
houx appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).