chasses
French, noun
chasses is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-S (7 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chasses is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of chasse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, chassés is a different word: “masculine plural of chassé”. With an accent, châsses is a different word: “plural of châsse”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espace se situant entre les tranches et les cartons d'un livre”.
What does chasses mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of chasse
verb
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of chassé
noun
- 1
feminineplural of châsse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espace se situant entre les tranches et les cartons d'un livre. 2. Combats entre ou contre des animaux sauvages dans les jeux du cirque.
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.
How common is chasses in French?
chasses appears 2.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).