chalet
French, noun/ʃa.lɛ/
chalet is spelled C-H-A-L-E-T (6 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written French, the 11,366th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chalet is a French masculine noun meaning “chalet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cabane sur l’alpage, où s’abritent les bergers pendant l’été et où ils font les fromages”.
What does chalet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechalet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cabane sur l’alpage, où s’abritent les bergers pendant l’été et où ils font les fromages. 2. Cabane, cabinet. 3. Maison de campagne, maison de plaisance de style rustique. 4. Lampe suspendue au plafond.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chalet
- chalets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chalet?
- /ʃa.lɛ/
- \ʃa.lɛ\
- \ʃɑ.lɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chalet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chalet in French?
chalet appears 4.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).