chat-tigre
\ʃa.tiɡʁ\
The verdict
“chat-tigre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à certaines espèces de félins, des chats sauvages tachés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chat-tigre · chat-tigre · French
chat-tigre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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-tigre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.tiɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
chat-tigre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.tiɡʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
chat-tigre has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chat-tigre, spelled C-H-A-T---T-I-G-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à certaines espèces de félins, des chats sauvages tachés.
- 2Synonyme d'oncille (carnivore félin).
- 3Synonyme de margay (carnivore félin).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chat-tigre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Chats-tigres guettent les bœufs et les cerfs dans le sentier qui conduit à l’eau : aussitôt qu’ils les aperçoivent, ils grimpent sur un arbre, et quand l’animal est proche de l’arbre fatal ils sautent sur son dos, lui coupent le nerf avec leurs dents, ne cessent de le mutiler jusqu’à ce qu’il tombe et qu’il soit mort.
This word in other languages
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.