huppé
French, adjective
huppé is spelled H-U-P-P-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Huppé is a French adjective meaning “crested” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, huppe is a different word: “hoopoe (bird of species Upupa epops)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a une huppe sur la tête, en parlant des oiseaux”.
What does huppé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
crested
- 2
colloquialupper-crust, posh
noun
- 1
femininehoopoe (bird of species Upupa epops)
- 2
femininecrest (tuft growing on an animal's head)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Touffe de plumes que certains oiseaux ont sur la tête. 2. Nom vernaculaire de différents oiseaux de l'ordre des bucérotiformes de couleur orangée et zébrés noir et blanc, possédant une huppe sur la tête (genre Upupa). 3. Foyer de pourriture qui se trouve dans une pièce de bois.
adjective: 1. Qui a une huppe sur la tête, en parlant des oiseaux. 2. De haut parage, notable par la richesse ou par le rang. 3. Riche.
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 huppé
- huppes plural
- huppée feminine
- huppés masculine plural
- huppées feminine plural
- ^((h aspiré))\yp\ singular plural
- ^((h aspiré))\y.pe\ singular masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to huppé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is huppé in French?
huppé 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).