chat à tête plate

\ʃa a tɛt plat\

/\ʃa a tɛt plat\/ noun

The verdict

“chat à tête plate” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom usuel de Prionailurus planiceps, chat de petite taille, vivant dans les forêts humides de Malaisie et des îles de Bornéo et de Sumatra, et dont les pattes sont palmées

Key facts for chat à tête plate
PropertyValue
Headwordchat à tête plate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃa a tɛt plat\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “chat à tête plate” sits in French frequency

chat à tête plate falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chat à tête plate is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa a tɛt plat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom usuel de Prionailurus planiceps, chat de petite taille, vivant dans les forêts humides de Malaisie et des îles de Bornéo et de Sumatra, et dont les pattes sont palmées".

No misspelling variants are generated for chat à tête plate in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 chat à tête plate, spelled C-H-A-T- -À- -T-Ê-T-E- -P-L-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Nom usuel de Prionailurus planiceps, chat de petite taille, vivant dans les forêts humides de Malaisie et des îles de Bornéo et de Sumatra, et dont les pattes sont palmées

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chat à tête plate"?
"chat à tête plate" is spelled C-H-A-T- -À- -T-Ê-T-E- -P-L-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa a tɛt plat\.
What does "chat à tête plate" mean?
As a noun, "chat à tête plate" means: Nom usuel de Prionailurus planiceps, chat de petite taille, vivant dans les forêts humides de Malaisie et des îles de Bornéo et de Sumatra, et dont les pattes sont palmées
How do you pronounce "chat à tête plate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chat à tête plate" is \ʃa a tɛt plat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chat à tête plate" come from?
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Using “chat à tête plate”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-T- -À- -T-Ê-T-E- -P-L-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ʃa a tɛt plat\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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