chasseur de têtes

/\ʃa.sœʁ də tɛt\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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chasseur de têtes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Membre d’une tribu qui coupe et préserve la tête d’un ennemi comme tradition. Pronounced \ʃa.sœʁ də tɛt\.

Key facts for chasseur de têtes
PropertyValue
Headwordchasseur de têtes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃa.sœʁ də tɛt\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chasseur de têtes is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chasseur de têtes is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.sœʁ də tɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chasseur de têtes in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 chasseur de têtes, spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-U-R- -D-E- -T-Ê-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Membre d’une tribu qui coupe et préserve la tête d’un ennemi comme tradition.
  2. 2
    Personne chargée de recruter des personnes de haut niveau ou dont les compétences sont très difficiles à trouver.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chasseur de têtes"?
"chasseur de têtes" is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-U-R- -D-E- -T-Ê-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa.sœʁ də tɛt\.
What does "chasseur de têtes" mean?
As a noun, "chasseur de têtes" means: Membre d’une tribu qui coupe et préserve la tête d’un ennemi comme tradition.
How do you pronounce "chasseur de têtes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chasseur de têtes" is \ʃa.sœʁ də tɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chasseur de têtes" come from?
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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.