chasse

/\ʃas\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,806

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

chasse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de chasser, c’est-à-dire poursuivre pour capturer ou tuer. Pronounced \ʃas\. It ranks #1,806 in French word frequency. Often confused with chose and chats.

Key facts for chasse
PropertyValue
Headwordchasse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃas\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,806
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chasse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chasse is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃas\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,806 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for chasse, with forms such as "cahsse", "cchasse", and "chases". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chose", "chats", "class", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 chasse, spelled C-H-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de chasser, c’est-à-dire poursuivre pour capturer ou tuer.
  2. 2
    Activité humaine qui consiste à poursuivre ou surveiller le gibier en forêt ou en nature pour le tuer.
  3. 3
    Réserve, terre ou domaine consacré à la chasse.
  4. 4
    Collectivement, les chasseurs, les chiens et tout l’équipage qui chasse.
  5. 5
    Gibier que l’on prend.
  6. 6
    Poursuite.
  7. 7
    Dimension variable d’un caractère typographique, mesurée dans un plan parallèle à la surface imprimante parallèlement à la ligne de base.
  8. 8
    Facilité plus ou moins grande qu’une voiture, ou tout autre véhicule, a de se porter en avant.
  9. 9
    Jeu, liberté de course qu’on laisse à quelques parties d’une machine, pour qu’elle puisse se prêter à des irrégularités accidentelles de force et de mouvement.
  10. 10
    Jeu, liberté de course qu’on laisse à quelques parties d’une machine, pour qu’elle puisse se prêter à des irrégularités accidentelles de force et de mouvement.
  11. 11
    Courant artificiel que l’on produit dans les ports pour dégager le chenal des sables qu’y apportent les marées.
  12. 12
    Chasse d’eau.
  13. 13
    Matériau explosif permettant de propulser une charge utile.
  14. 14
    Combat entre ou contre des animaux sauvages dans les jeux du cirque.
  15. 15
    Au cricket ce sont les actions que fait l'équipe qui lance la balle, pour pouvoir la récupérer.
  16. 16
    Chemin dans le bocage.
  17. 17
    Ensemble des avions de chasse d'un pays.
  18. 18
    Partie de carton débordant du volume en tête ou en queue ou en gouttière.
  19. 19
    Outil de carrier servant à polir ou creuser une pierre

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cahsse,cchasse,chases,chhasse,chsase,hcasse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chasse

Misspelling Variants of "chasse"

cahsse6cchasse7chases6chhasse7chsase6hcasse6
Misspelling Variants of "chasse"

Frequency rank: #1,806 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chasse"?
"chasse" is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃas\.
What does "chasse" mean?
As a noun, "chasse" means: Action de chasser, c’est-à-dire poursuivre pour capturer ou tuer.
What words are commonly confused with "chasse"?
"chasse" is commonly confused with "chose", "chats", "class". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chasse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chasse" is \ʃas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chasse" come from?
"chasse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.