chasseur de primes
\ʃa.sœʁ də pʁim\
The verdict
“chasseur de primes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui gagne sa vie en attrapant des hors-la-loi pour la capture desquels est offerte une prime.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chasseur de primes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.sœʁ də pʁim\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chasseur de primes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chasseur de primes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.sœʁ də pʁim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui gagne sa vie en attrapant des hors-la-loi pour la capture desquels est offerte une prime.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chasseur de primes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is chasseur de primes, spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-U-R- -D-E- -P-R-I-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Personne qui gagne sa vie en attrapant des hors-la-loi pour la capture desquels est offerte une prime.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-S-S-E-U-R- -D-E- -P-R-I-M-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa.sœʁ də pʁim\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.