hauteur
/oʊˈtɝ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him?"
- "“What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one."
- "[A]n angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed."
- "I imagine the Dreamward’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur […]"
- "Sometimes the hauteur is nothing more dire than a kind of black-mother wit."
Etymology
Etymology tree French haut Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -ōrem Old French -or Middle French -eur French -eur French hauteurbor. English hauteur Borrowed from French hauteur.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /oʊˈtɝ/
- British English: /ɔːˈtɜː/