chatte
\ʃat\
The verdict
“chatte” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,274 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #6,274
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Comparable à une chatte : joueur, caresseur, flatteur.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chatte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʃat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chatte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chatte is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃat\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,274 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Comparable à une chatte : joueur, caresseur, flatteur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for chatte, with forms such as "cahtte", "cchatte", and "chate". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chute", "cotte", "chaude", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is chatte, spelled C-H-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Comparable à une chatte : joueur, caresseur, flatteur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cahtte,cchatte,chate,chatet,chhatte,chtate,hcatte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chatte - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “chatte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃat\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “chute” - see the side-by-side comparison. chatte vs chute
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.