chasse aux sorcières
The verdict
“chasse aux sorcières” 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
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Campagne de persécutions de personnes, particulièrement de femmes, accusées de pratiquer la magie noire, lancée à partir du XIIᵉ siècle par l’Église catholique romaine et les églises réformées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chasse aux sorcières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.s‿o sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chasse aux sorcières” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chasse aux sorcières is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.s‿o sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chasse aux sorcières 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 chasse aux sorcières, spelled C-H-A-S-S-E- -A-U-X- -S-O-R-C-I-È-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Campagne de persécutions de personnes, particulièrement de femmes, accusées de pratiquer la magie noire, lancée à partir du XIIᵉ siècle par l’Église catholique romaine et les églises réformées.
- 2Élimination de tous les opposants politiques au régime en place.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-S-S-E- -A-U-X- -S-O-R-C-I-È-R-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa.s‿o sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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