huitain

H4U1I1T1A1I1N1

noun

A French poem, a kind of octastich.

OriginFrench huitain →
Scrabble 10
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounhuitain (plural huitains)

plural huitains

  1. A French poem, a kind of octastich.

Origin

  1. Frenchhuitain
  2. Englishhuitain

Borrowed from French huitain.

More words from French

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

huitain. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huitain

MLA

“huitain.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huitain. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “huitain,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/huitain.

Source: huitain on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.