chaise électrique

/\ʃɛ.z‿e.lɛk.tʁik\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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chaise électrique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument d’application de la peine de mort par électrocution. Pronounced \ʃɛ.z‿e.lɛk.tʁik\.

Key facts for chaise électrique
PropertyValue
Headwordchaise électrique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃɛ.z‿e.lɛk.tʁik\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chaise électrique is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chaise électrique is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛ.z‿e.lɛk.tʁik\. 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 d’application de la peine de mort par électrocution.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chaise électrique in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 électrique, spelled C-H-A-I-S-E- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Instrument d’application de la peine de mort par électrocution.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chaise électrique"?
"chaise électrique" is spelled C-H-A-I-S-E- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃɛ.z‿e.lɛk.tʁik\.
What does "chaise électrique" mean?
As a noun, "chaise électrique" means: Instrument d’application de la peine de mort par électrocution.
How do you pronounce "chaise électrique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chaise électrique" is \ʃɛ.z‿e.lɛk.tʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chaise électrique" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.