chat sauvage

/[ʃa sovaʒ]/ noun

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12 characters

Language

German

word origin

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chat sauvage is aGermannoun. It means: wild lebendes, nicht domestiziertes Raubtier, das der Hauskatze ähnelt und in verschiedenen Unterarten in Eurasien und Afrika vorkommt (Felis silvestris) Pronounced [ʃa sovaʒ].

Key facts for chat sauvage
PropertyValue
Headwordchat sauvage
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʃa sovaʒ]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chat sauvage is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for chat sauvage is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃa sovaʒ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for chat sauvage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is chat sauvage, spelled C-H-A-T- -S-A-U-V-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    wild lebendes, nicht domestiziertes Raubtier, das der Hauskatze ähnelt und in verschiedenen Unterarten in Eurasien und Afrika vorkommt (Felis silvestris)
  2. 2
    (ursprünglich nur in den Wäldern Nordamerikas beheimateter, seit spätestens Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts auch in Europa, im Kaukasus und in Japan vorkommender, mittlerweile auch in Parks und in von Menschen besiedelten Orten vordringender und sich Futter aus Abfallbehältern holender) nachtaktiver, allesfressender Vertreter der Familie der Kleinbären (Procyon lotor) mit kurzer, spitzer Schnauze, einer maskenartigen, schwarz gefärbten Gesichtszeichnung um die Augen und langem, buschigem, schwarz geringeltem Schwanz, dessen Fell unterschiedliche Grau- und/oder Brauntöne besitzt
  3. 3
    Pelz des unter [2] beschriebenen Tieres
  4. 4
    (in Nordamerika beheimatetes) kleines, hochbeiniges katzenartiges Raubtier mit einem blassgelben bis rötlich braunen, häufig dunkelbraun bis schwarz gefleckten Fell, kleinem, rundlichem Kopf und kurzem Schwanz (Lynx rufus)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chat sauvage"?
"chat sauvage" is spelled C-H-A-T- -S-A-U-V-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃa sovaʒ].
What does "chat sauvage" mean?
As a noun, "chat sauvage" means: wild lebendes, nicht domestiziertes Raubtier, das der Hauskatze ähnelt und in verschiedenen Unterarten in Eurasien und Afrika vorkommt (Felis silvestris)
How do you pronounce "chat sauvage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chat sauvage" is [ʃa sovaʒ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chat sauvage" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.