chaise du tigre
\ʃɛz dy tiɡʁ\
The verdict
“chaise du tigre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrument de torture qui immobilise la personne en position assise avec des menottes fixes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaise du tigre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛz dy tiɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chaise du tigre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaise du tigre is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛz dy tiɡʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrument de torture qui immobilise la personne en position assise avec des menottes fixes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chaise du tigre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is chaise du tigre, spelled C-H-A-I-S-E- -D-U- -T-I-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument de torture qui immobilise la personne en position assise avec des menottes fixes.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-I-S-E- -D-U- -T-I-G-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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