chatière
\ʃa.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“chatière” is uncommon French (frequency #95,685 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,685
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture qu’on pratique aux portes (ou aux toits des greniers) pour laisser passer les chats.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatiere · chatière · French
chatière · rank #95,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,685
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charment
Nearest frequency peer: charment (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « chatière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chapin
chapin
4,319 corpus weight
- charades
charades
4,318 corpus weight
- charment
charment
4,317 corpus weight
- chatière
chatière
4,316 corpus weight
- chaufferies
chaufferies
4,315 corpus weight
- chautemps
chautemps
4,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chatière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chatière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chatière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chatière is uncommon French at frequency #95,685 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃa.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
chatière has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chatière, spelled C-H-A-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ouverture qu’on pratique aux portes (ou aux toits des greniers) pour laisser passer les chats.
- 2Ouverture pratiquée pour la ventilation des toits.
- 3Ouverture pratiquée pour l’écoulement des eaux d’un bassin.
- 4Piège pour prendre les chats.
- 5Passage étroit où l’on doit se glisser pour passer d’un endroit à un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chatière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'avisai alors, au niveau du parquet, un trou nommé chatière, qui existe dans les châteaux du Midi au bas de toutes les portes, afin de donner aux chats un libre accès dans les appartements.
Par un trou de carreau cassé rustiquement rebouché de papier, par la chatière d’une porte ou l’évidement d’un mur bas à l’endroit où passent les poutres, elle était parvenue, certaine nuit à couler dans la grange son corps vermiforme […]
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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