chasuble
\ʃa.zybl\
The verdict
“chasuble” is uncommon French (frequency #59,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,883
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vêtement que le prêtre revêt par-dessus l’aube et l’étole pour célébrer la messe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chasuble · chasuble · French
chasuble · rank #59,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chandails
Nearest frequency peer: chandails (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chasuble »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chamanisme
chamanisme
40,122 corpus weight
- chancel
chancel
40,121 corpus weight
- chandails
chandails
40,120 corpus weight
- chasuble
chasuble
40,118 corpus weight
- chauffait
chauffait
40,116 corpus weight
- chauffants
chauffants
40,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chasuble » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chasuble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.zybl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chasuble » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chasuble is uncommon French at frequency #59,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.zybl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
chasuble doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is chasuble, spelled C-H-A-S-U-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Vêtement que le prêtre revêt par-dessus l’aube et l’étole pour célébrer la messe.
- 2Vêtement que chaque joueur d’une des deux équipes enfile par-dessus son maillot dans le cas où la tenue des deux équipes se ressemble trop, afin de bien distinguer les équipes.
- 3Vêtement de couleur vive enfilé par-dessus un vêtement afin d’être plus facilement visible.
- 4Chemise courte portée par certains malades en milieu hospitalier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chasuble appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait dix-sept chasubles galonnées, outre les ornements de deuil
Le chapelain s’affuble du brocart radieux de la lourde chasuble.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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