château d’eau
\ʃa.to d‿o\
The verdict
“château d’eau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réservoir situé en hauteur pour permettre la distribution de l’eau aux habitants d'une commune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chateau-d-eau · château d’eau · French
château d’eau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | château d’eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.to d‿o\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « château d’eau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
château d’eau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.to d‿o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réservoir situé en hauteur pour permettre la distribution de l’eau aux habitants d'une commune.".
No misspelling variants are generated for château d’eau in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is château d’eau, spelled C-H-Â-T-E-A-U- -D-’-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Réservoir situé en hauteur pour permettre la distribution de l’eau aux habitants d'une commune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how château d’eau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; de votre côté, vous ferez bien de visiter votre château d’eau et d’en effectuer un curage sérieux : je ne serais pas étonné qu’on y découvrît quelque chose d’anormal.
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.