hache

• IPA^(key): /ˈat͡ʃe/
• Syllabification: ha‧che
• Rhymes: -atʃe

hache m

1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be / be alta, ce, de, e, efe, gue, hache, i, i larga, ca, ele, eme, ene, o, pe, cu, erre, ese, te, u, ve baixa, ve dople, xe, i griega, zeta

Inherited from Middle French hache, from Old French hache, borrowed from Frankish *happjā (“axe, hatchet”).

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʃ/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /haʃ/

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• Rhymes: -aʃ
• Homophones: ache, aches, hachent, haches, hash
• Hyphenation: hache

hache f (plural haches)

1. axe

• enterrer la hache de guerre

hache

1. inflection of hacher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “hache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈat͡ʃe/ [ˈa̠.t͡ʃɪ]
• Rhymes: -atʃe

hache m (plural haches)

1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be, ce, de, e, efe, gue, hache, i, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, que, erre, ese, te, u, uve, xe, ceta / zeta

• “hache”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Borrowed from Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhat͡ʃ(ə)/

hache (plural hachez)

2. A war axe; an axe used as a weapon.
3. (rare) An axe used as a tool.

• hachet

• “hache, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 August 2018.

Borrowed from Old French haschiee, hachïe.

• hacche, hachee

• IPA^(key): /ˈhat͡ʃeː/

hache (plural haches)

2. (rare) pain, torment, anguish.

• “hachẹ̄, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 August 2018.

hache

1. alternative form of hacche

From Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʃə/

hache f (plural haches)

1. axe (bladed weapon)

• French: hache

From Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”).

hache f (plural haches)

1. (Jersey) axe

Borrowed from English hash.

hache f (plural haches)

1. (Jersey) hash sign, number sign

• hace

From Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kop- (“to strike, beat”).

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhat͡ʃə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈhaʃə/

hache oblique singular, f (oblique plural haches, nominative singular hache, nominative plural haches)

1. axe (bladed weapon)

• hachete

• Bourguignon: haiche
• Champenois: haiche (Troyen), hate (Rémois)
• Middle French: hache
  • French: hache
• Gallo: haïche
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: hache
• Walloon: hatche
• → Iberia:
  • Asturian: hacha, hachu
  • Old Catalan: atxa^[1]
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: acha
    • Portuguese: acha
  • Old Spanish: facha
    • Spanish: hacha
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: facha
      • Galician: facha
• → Italy:
  • Calabrian: haccia
  • Italian: azza, accia (archaic)
• → Middle English: hache

• IPA^(key): /ˈat͡ʃe/ [ˈa.t͡ʃe]

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• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Syllabification: ha‧che

Borrowed from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca.

hache f (plural haches)

1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

Nominally, hache always takes the usual feminine articles la and una (la hache, una hache). This makes it an exception to the rule according to which feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ frequently take the articles el and un otherwise reserved for masculine nouns (e.g., el alma, un alma).

hache

1. inflection of hachar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be, ce, de, e, efe, ge, hache, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, cu, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve doble, equis, ye, zeta

• “hache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• atse

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish hache, the Spanish name of the letter H / h. Doublet of eyts.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔat͡ʃe/ [ˈʔaː.t͡ʃɛ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈʔatse/ [ˈʔat̪.sɛ]
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃe, (no palatal assimilation) -atse
• Syllabification: ha‧che

hache (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆ᜔ᜐᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin script letter H/h, in the Abecedario

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) eyts, (in the Abakada alphabet) ha

• “hache”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018