châtre
\ʃɑtʁ\
The verdict
“châtre” is uncommon French (frequency #59,162 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,162
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe châtrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chatre · châtre · French
châtre · rank #59,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,162
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chiisme
Nearest frequency peer: chiisme (-2 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 « châtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chenu
chenu
40,843 corpus weight
- cherté
cherté
40,842 corpus weight
- chiisme
chiisme
40,841 corpus weight
- châtre
châtre
40,839 corpus weight
- cima
cima
40,837 corpus weight
- clairières
clairières
40,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « châtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | châtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « châtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
châtre is uncommon French at frequency #59,162 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃɑtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for châtre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is châtre, spelled C-H-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe châtrer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe châtrer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe châtrer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe châtrer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe châtrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how châtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La hardiesse du vrai s’élève à des combinaisons interdites à l’art, tant elles sont invraisemblables ou peu décentes, à moins que l’écrivain ne les adoucisse, ne les émonde, ne les châtre.
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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