chat de gouttière
\ʃa də ɡu.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“chat de gouttière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chat de race indéterminée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chat-de-gouttiere · chat de gouttière · French
chat de gouttière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chat de gouttière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa də ɡu.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
chat de gouttière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa də ɡu.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chat de gouttière, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is chat de gouttière, spelled C-H-A-T- -D-E- -G-O-U-T-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Chat de race indéterminée.
- 2Synonyme d’européen (race de chat).
- 3Chat errant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chat de gouttière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], cela me serait insupportable, d’autant plus que, la nuit venue, je ne verrai rien, n’étant point nyctalope comme les hiboux, les chouettes, les hulottes et les chats de gouttière.
Le meilleur préservatif contre les souris est un chat, non pas un chat angora, mais un chat à poil lisse et ras, rayé de gris et de brun, de la race commune appelée chat de gouttière.
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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.