chat de jungle
\ʃa de ʒœ̃ɡl\
The verdict
“chat de jungle” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de grand chat sauvage des zones humides d’Egypte et du sud de l’Asie, aux poils assez courts, et qui ressemble à un petit lynx.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chat de jungle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa de ʒœ̃ɡl\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chat de jungle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chat de jungle is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa de ʒœ̃ɡl\. 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: "Espèce de grand chat sauvage des zones humides d’Egypte et du sud de l’Asie, aux poils assez courts, et qui ressemble à un petit lynx.".
No misspelling variants are generated for chat de jungle 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 de jungle, spelled C-H-A-T- -D-E- -J-U-N-G-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de grand chat sauvage des zones humides d’Egypte et du sud de l’Asie, aux poils assez courts, et qui ressemble à un petit lynx.
Synonyms
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Using “chat de jungle”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-T- -D-E- -J-U-N-G-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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