chasseur

\ʃa.sœʁ\

/\ʃa.sœʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“chasseur” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,380
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui chasse ; de la chasse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chasseur · chasseur · French

chasseur · rank #6,380 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,380
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH charité

Nearest frequency peer: charité (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chasseur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chasseur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chasseur vs classer
75% similar
chasseur vs chassez
75% similar
chasseur vs classeur
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chasseur
PropertyValue
Headwordchasseur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʃa.sœʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,380
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chasseur »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.chasseurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « charité » (#6,379), « coller » (#6,381), « championne » (#6,378). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chasseur » est au #6,380. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around chasseur (IPA \ʃa.sœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,380 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for chasseur, with forms such as "cahsseur", "cchasseur", and "chasesur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "classer", "chassez", "classeur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chasseur, spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui chasse ; de la chasse.
  2. 2
    Qualifie une arme ou un système d’armes destiné à donner la chasse à une cible pour la détruire.
  3. 3
    Qualifie une personne ou un objet destiné à rechercher une personne ou un objet.
  4. 4
    Qualifie un plat ou une sauce à base de champignons et de vin.
  5. 5
    Qui se prête à la chasse, giboyeux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how chasseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il est à observer qu’un peuple chasseur doit se répandre sur un vaste continent, beaucoup plus vite qu’un peuple cultivateur.
  2. Car la région que nous traversons est assez giboyeuse, et les grands nemrods de la m’halla, […], qui ont emmené des meutes de lévriers et des faucons chasseurs, font des hécatombes de lièvres, de perdrix, de poules de Carthage, de renards et de chacals.

Synonyms

veneur

This word in other languages

hunting(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cahsseur
  • cchasseur
  • chasesur
  • chaseur
  • chasseru
  • chasseurr
  • chassuer
  • chhasseur
  • chsaseur
  • hcasseur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chasseur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cahsseur2cchasseur1chasesur2chaseur1chasseru2chasseurr1chassuer2chhasseur1
Edit distance from "chasseur"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chasseur"?
"chasseur" is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa.sœʁ\.
What does "chasseur" mean?
As an adjective, "chasseur" means: Qui chasse ; de la chasse.
What words are commonly confused with "chasseur"?
"chasseur" is commonly confused with "classer", "chassez", "classeur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chasseur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chasseur" is \ʃa.sœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chasseur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "chasseur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list