chasse-crapaud
\ʃas.kʁa.po\
The verdict
“chasse-crapaud” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Engoulevent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chasse-crapaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃas.kʁa.po\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chasse-crapaud” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chasse-crapaud is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃas.kʁa.po\. 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: "Engoulevent.".
chasse-crapaud has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chasse-crapaud, spelled C-H-A-S-S-E---C-R-A-P-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Engoulevent.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “chasse-crapaud”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-S-S-E---C-R-A-P-A-U-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.