chaton
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,880
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
chaton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeune chat, mâle ou femelle, qui n’a pas encore atteint l’âge adulte. Pour une femelle on peut plus particulièrement parler de chatonne. Pronounced \ʃa.tɔ̃\. Often confused with chats and coton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃa.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaton is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃa.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,880 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chaton, with forms such as "cahton", "cchaton", and "chaotn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chats", "coton", "chatte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chaton, spelled C-H-A-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeune chat, mâle ou femelle, qui n’a pas encore atteint l’âge adulte. Pour une femelle on peut plus particulièrement parler de chatonne.
- 2Chéri, chérie.
- 3Inflorescence en épi, à fleurs peu apparentes et unisexuées, pendante ressemblant à la queue d’un chat, caractéristique de nombreux arbres (saule, noyer, coudrier, chêne…).
- 4Saule décoloré, petit saule aux chatons doux originaire d’Amérique du Nord et de nom scientifique Salix discolor.
- 5Partie supérieure d'un joyau, en particulier une bague, qui peut accueillir un pierre ou une gemme sertie.
- 6Petit amas de poussière, de fibres, qui se forme sous un meuble.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahton,cchaton,chaotn,chatno,chatonn,chatton,chhaton,chtaon,hcaton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chaton
Misspelling Variants of "chaton"
Frequency rank: #14,880 in French
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