hunier
French, noun/y.nje/
hunier is spelled H-U-N-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hunier is a French masculine noun meaning “topsail (sail above the course sail)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mât portant une hune”.
What does hunier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetopsail (sail above the course sail)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mât portant une hune. 2. Voile carrée du mât de hune.
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 hunier
- huniers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hunier?
- /y.nje/
- ^((h aspiré))\y.nje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hunier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hunier in French?
hunier 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).