chat
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,433
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mammifère carnivore félin de taille moyenne, au museau court et arrondi, domestiqué, apprivoisé ou encore à l’état sauvage. Pronounced \ʃa\. It ranks #1,433 in French word frequency. Often confused with Ct and cia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chat is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,433 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for chat, with forms such as "caht", "cchat", and "chatt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ct", "cia", "che", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 chat, spelled C-H-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mammifère carnivore félin de taille moyenne, au museau court et arrondi, domestiqué, apprivoisé ou encore à l’état sauvage.
- 2Individu mâle de cet animal.
- 3Félin.
- 4Synonyme de poisson-chat commun.
- 5Synonyme de loup : jeu d’enfants où un des participants appelé chat doit toucher un de ses camarades qui devient le chat à son tour.
- 6Instrument à branches de fer élastiques et pointues, dont on se sert pour visiter l’âme d’une pièce de canon, afin de découvrir les chambres qui s’y trouvent.
- 7Vulve ou vagin, chatte.
- 8Palatine, sorte de fourrure que les femmes portent au cou.
- 9Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Comme le léopard, il est représenté passant et de face.
- 10Position de yoga à quatre pattes.
- 11Défaut, corps étranger, dans un bloc d'ardoise qui le rend impropre à être fendu et utiliser.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: caht,cchat,chatt,chhat,chta,hcat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chat
Misspelling Variants of "chat"
Frequency rank: #1,433 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: