chasse-neige

/\ʃas.nɛʒ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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Confusables

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chasse-neige is aFrenchnoun. It means: Appareil (éperon de tôle, plate-forme triangulaire, charrue à deux versoirs, turbine, etc.) adapté à un véhicule ou tiré par un cheval, et qui sert au déblaiement des routes en hiver dans les régio... Pronounced \ʃas.nɛʒ\.

Key facts for chasse-neige
PropertyValue
Headwordchasse-neige
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃas.nɛʒ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chasse-neige is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃas.nɛʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for chasse-neige 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-neige, spelled C-H-A-S-S-E---N-E-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appareil (éperon de tôle, plate-forme triangulaire, charrue à deux versoirs, turbine, etc.) adapté à un véhicule ou tiré par un cheval, et qui sert au déblaiement des routes en hiver dans les régions où le climat est neigeux.
  2. 2
    Appareil installé devant une locomotive de chemin de fer pour écarter la neige de la voie.
  3. 3
    Véhicule routier équipé d’un chasse-neige.
  4. 4
    Disposition des skis en V, servant à freiner une descente.
  5. 5
    Ensemble de particules de neige soulevées par un vent fort et turbulent, nuisant fortement à la visibilité.
  6. 6
    Vent violent qui pousse la neige devant lui.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chasse-neige"?
"chasse-neige" is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E---N-E-I-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃas.nɛʒ\.
What does "chasse-neige" mean?
As a noun, "chasse-neige" means: Appareil (éperon de tôle, plate-forme triangulaire, charrue à deux versoirs, turbine, etc.) adapté à un véhicule ou tiré par un cheval, et qui sert au déblaiement des routes en hiver dans les régio...
How do you pronounce "chasse-neige"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chasse-neige" is \ʃas.nɛʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chasse-neige" come from?
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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.