chat sauvage

/\ʃa so.vaʒ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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chat sauvage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Représentant de plusieurs espèces de félins du genre Felis de taille moyenne à petite, habitant en Europe, en Asie de l’Ouest et en Afrique, notamment le chat forestier. Pronounced \ʃa so.vaʒ\.

Key facts for chat sauvage
PropertyValue
Headwordchat sauvage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃa so.vaʒ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chat sauvage is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chat sauvage is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa so.vaʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for chat sauvage in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 sauvage, spelled C-H-A-T- -S-A-U-V-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Représentant de plusieurs espèces de félins du genre Felis de taille moyenne à petite, habitant en Europe, en Asie de l’Ouest et en Afrique, notamment le chat forestier.
  2. 2
    Chat haret ; chat domestique sans maître, ou chat issu de la descendance de chats domestiques et retourné à l’état sauvage.
  3. 3
    Raton laveur.
  4. 4
    Lynx roux.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chat sauvage"?
"chat sauvage" is spelled C-H-A-T- -S-A-U-V-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃa so.vaʒ\.
What does "chat sauvage" mean?
As a noun, "chat sauvage" means: Représentant de plusieurs espèces de félins du genre Felis de taille moyenne à petite, habitant en Europe, en Asie de l’Ouest et en Afrique, notamment le chat forestier.
How do you pronounce "chat sauvage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chat sauvage" is \ʃa so.vaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chat sauvage" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.