chasser

/\ʃa.se\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,594

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

chasser is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre dehors avec violence ; contraindre ou forcer de sortir de quelque lieu. Pronounced \ʃa.se\. It ranks #6,594 in French word frequency. Often confused with classe and crasse.

Key facts for chasser
PropertyValue
Headwordchasser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʃa.se\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,594
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chasser in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chasser is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,594 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chasser, with forms such as "cahsser", "cchasser", and "chaser". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "classe", "crasse", "chaste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 chasser, spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mettre dehors avec violence ; contraindre ou forcer de sortir de quelque lieu.
  2. 2
    Congédier, renvoyer une personne dont on est mal satisfait.
  3. 3
    Poursuivre, prendre en chasse, en parlant d’un navire.
  4. 4
    Chercher à tuer le gibier ou les bêtes féroces.
  5. 5
    Chercher à tuer toute sorte de gibier.
  6. 6
    Mener, faire marcher devant soi, en parlant principalement des bestiaux.
  7. 7
    Pousser quelque chose en avant.
  8. 8
    Être poussé ou projeté en avant.
  9. 9
    Occuper un certain espace. Avancer.
  10. 10
    Exécuter le pas de danse appelé chassé.
  11. 11
    Souffler, en parlant de courant d'air dans une maison. ^([1])

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cahsser,cchasser,chaser,chasesr,chasserr,chassre,chhasser,chsaser,hcasser

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chasser

Misspelling Variants of "chasser"

cahsser7cchasser8chaser6chasesr7chasserr8chassre7chhasser8chsaser7
Misspelling Variants of "chasser"

Frequency rank: #6,594 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chasser"?
"chasser" is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa.se\.
What does "chasser" mean?
As a verb, "chasser" means: Mettre dehors avec violence ; contraindre ou forcer de sortir de quelque lieu.
What words are commonly confused with "chasser"?
"chasser" is commonly confused with "classe", "crasse", "chaste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chasser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chasser" is \ʃa.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chasser" come from?
"chasser" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.