chat sauvage
\ʃa so.vaʒ\
The verdict
“chat sauvage” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chat sauvage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa so.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chat sauvage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chat sauvage is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
chat sauvage has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is chat sauvage, spelled C-H-A-T- -S-A-U-V-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Représentant 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.
- 2Chat haret ; chat domestique sans maître, ou chat issu de la descendance de chats domestiques et retourné à l’état sauvage.
- 3Raton laveur.
- 4Lynx roux.
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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.
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Using “chat sauvage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-T- -S-A-U-V-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa so.vaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.