chassepot
French, noun/ʃas.po/
chassepot is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-P-O-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chassepot is a French masculine noun meaning “a breechloading, rapid-fire, long-range rifle used in the French army from 1866 to 1874” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fusil à tir rapide et à longue portée, en usage dans l’armée française de 1866 à 1874”.
What does chassepot mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea breechloading, rapid-fire, long-range rifle used in the French army from 1866 to 1874
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fusil à tir rapide et à longue portée, en usage dans l’armée française de 1866 à 1874.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chassepot
- chassepots plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chassepot?
- /ʃas.po/
- \ʃas.po\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chassepot in French?
chassepot appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).