chatière
\ʃa.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“chatière” is uncommon French (frequency #95,685 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,685
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ouverture qu’on pratique aux portes (ou aux toits des greniers) pour laisser passer les chats.
| 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) |
Where “chatière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chatière is uncommon French at frequency #95,685 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “chatière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-T-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃa.tjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.