chasse-neige
Letters
12 characters
Language
French
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chasse-neige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃas.nɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Appareil (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.
- 2Appareil installé devant une locomotive de chemin de fer pour écarter la neige de la voie.
- 3Véhicule routier équipé d’un chasse-neige.
- 4Disposition des skis en V, servant à freiner une descente.
- 5Ensemble de particules de neige soulevées par un vent fort et turbulent, nuisant fortement à la visibilité.
- 6Vent violent qui pousse la neige devant lui.
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